Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: This week, the arts. They're changing all the time, but do they get better? Do they ...

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment — such a clunky name for such a wonderful thing. And yet the name does point to the particular joy that this orchestra engenders so powerfully. It is exactly ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. In a week of dark news, music of the Enlightenment asserted itself, first with Mozart playing of rare imaginative beauty, classical shape ...

Why do we still feel the need to defend Felix Mendelssohn even in this, the bicentennial year of his birth? In his all too brief lifetime, he was deeply appreciated as the musician most admired by ...

Tom Service: With its late-night early-music initiative, the Night Shift, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment looks to have found the holy grail of classical music ...

The people around Beethoven were aflame with these ideas. In the end, Kant the man of the 18 th century became the bridge between the Enlightenment and the Romantic era — which is to say, in the early ...