Conductor Semyon Bychkov will take up the post of Paris Opera music director for an initial four-year term from 2028 ...

For more than 20 years, William Christie and his troupe Les Arts Florissants have illuminated the music of the French Baroque with performances of unparalleled acuity, grace and theatrical panache.

Our music today includes Haydn's Symphony No. 85, which he wrote during a successful visit to Paris, and which was a favorite of Marie Antoinette's. Tune in at 9 a.m. on 91.1 and 107.5 FM and our ...

Waiting for the audience in the Salle Pleyel's Art Deco foyerDavid Nice Ninety-five per cent of Napoleon's army was wiped out on the freezing retreat from Moscow in 1812. The statistics weren't nearly ...

That Mendelssohn wrote five symphonies is widely known, though I'd wager that 99% of listeners only know 40% of them. Begin with the rarely-played Symphony No. 1, written when Mendelssohn was 14.