Get ready for an evening of French chanson and international musical flair when the ensemble Paris Chansons performs at The Birchmere on March 13.

Russian prison songs, with their tales of prison life and search for expiation, constitutes one of Russia’s most distinctive music genres. Radio Rossii, a Russian nationwide wire radio station, runs a ...

First glance, two lovers from rival families fall head over heels—an inevitable love even death cannot stop. Though everyone thinks they know this Shakespearean tragedy, few have truly seen it. These ...

The later, string-quintet version of Fauré’s song cycle, celebrating his affection for the married Emma Bardac, is sung and played with beauty and finesse Nicky Spence/Julius Drake/Piatti Quartet: ...

Katherine Broderick (soprano), James Baillieu (piano), Heath Quartet, Adam Walker (flute), Tim Lowe (cello) (Champs Hill) Capable of big Wagnerian roles (she has sung Brünnhilde) as well as Richard ...

The genre of the realist-inflected arthouse musical has intermittently thrived in France , ever since it was kick-started by Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Papapluies de Cherbourg). It ...