Chapter thirteen of Gustave Flaubert’s North African fever-dream novel Salammbô is titled “Moloch.” The book, a strange ...

Going backward, at least in opus numbers, Grimaud began with Brahms’s Op. 116. These are “Seven Fantasies,” which are three ...

On the Tel Dan Stele, Jeremy Denk, Juilliard recitals, country houses & more from the world of culture.

There was one more encore, a fourth: “Still wie die Nacht,” by Carl Bohm (not to be confused with the famous conductor Karl ...

In a museum, you can reliably expect to see religious artworks—perhaps scenes from Christ’s life, intricate books of hours, ...

Filippo Gorini did some impressive playing in the Diabelli Variations. He tackled the piece manfully. For me, he was too ...

On Hannah Arendt, Italian drawings, the Czech Philharmonic, Renaissance libraries & more from the world of culture.

In any form, Shakespeare’s Macbeth carries a whiff of superstition and a presentiment of bad luck. Washington National Opera’s current production of Giuseppe Verdi’s operatic version, its first ...

Last night, Carnegie Hall launched a festival of Czech music, anchored by the Czech Philharmonic. This is a superb orchestra, with a superb music director: Semyon Bychkov, born in the Soviet Union in ...

Kazuki Yamada, from Japan, is the music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, in England. That position has proven a stepping-stone to yet bigger podiums. But it is a big and ...