Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata is the most popular piece of music to fall asleep to, according to a global sleep study. A fifth (20 percent) of UK respondents said the enduring 1801 piano work, known ...
For the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s 2018/2019 season — a transitional season between music directors — the musicians co-curated the pieces they will perform. It’s not difficult to imagine why ...
The complete piano concertos by Beethoven, performed by pianist Jayson Gillham, with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Carter. This cycle – the first in twenty years recorded with ...
From an evolutionary standpoint, we’re still not sure whether our brains evolved specifically to process music, or music happened to make use of neural pathways that had developed for other reasons.