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

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

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

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

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

Piet Mondrian is known, of course, for his red, yellow, and blue. And after he made the switch from Post-Impressionism to De Stijl, he apparently stuck to his guns: during the Blitz, when friends told ...

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 ...

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.

Kazuki Yamada, from Japan, is the music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, in England. That position has ...