The conductor Ernest Ansermet held a grudge against atonal music, saying it went against the "true path" of tonality. In this performance, the Suisse Romande Orchestra plays a tune catchy enough to ...

Thomas Adès’ Three Studies from Couperin opens this program which will also feature DCS concertmaster Kazuhiro Takagi on Saint Saëns’ Violin Concerto No. 3. After intermission the orchestra performs ...

We'll hear a fine performance from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, led by Matthias Bamert (mah-TEE-ahs BAM-ert). It's the Symphony in C, by the 17-year-old Georges Bizet (zhorzh bee-ZAY). It's ...

The Classical Tahoe Orchestra performs Selections from Carmen by Georges Bizet, Symphony No. 1 in C Major by Georges Bizet, Sinfonietta No. 2 (“Generations”) by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and Violin ...

Bizet’s only symphony was composed in 1855 as a school exercise. The 17-year-old composer promptly forgot about the piece, and the manuscript was spotted in the archives of the Paris Consevatoire some ...

French composer Georges Bizet was 17 when he wrote "Symphony in C" in 1855. It was discovered decades after the death of the composer.