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 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 ...

Written when the composer was just 17, the Symphony in C was regarded so dismissively by Bizet himself as a juvenile trifle that he neither published it nor had it played during his lifetime. Only ...

Two of Bizet’s most popular orchestral works are given sunny performances by the Orchestre de Paris, bringing both charm and freshness to the Symphony in C and the five pieces of Jeux d’enfants. If ...

New York City Ballet Symphony in C is part two of a two-part special featuring four ballets by NYCB co-founder George Balanchine set to the music of French composers. Symphony in C opens with Ravel's ...

Stephen Johnson explores the colourful world of Bizet's Symphony in C, a work the composer wrote while he was still a student at the Paris Conservatoire. Show more Bizet's "Symphony in C" has a ...