As much as I think I know about classical music I continue to be humbled by how much I don’t know. As we turn toward summer, the esoteric pick of the week is back on my radar and it brings with it a ...

Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881-1950) is a composer whose music, until very recently, counted among the lost. As Patrick Zuk remarks at the outset of this compelling biography, he was nevertheless regarded ...

Vadim Repin, who appears tonight at Davies Symphony Hall as part of the San Francisco Symphony's Great Performers Series, is among the handful of brilliant younger violinists who have rediscovered the ...