Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano music ... The Romantic era gave birth to the virtuoso. Liszt was one of the greatest of his time, and wrote demanding piano music to show off his own brilliance.

By Adam Nossiter Leif Segerstam, a Finnish conductor and composer whose remarkable output — 371 symphonies in all ... an unequaled interpreter of its greatest musician, Jean Sibelius ...

Conductor Seiji Ozawa, who led postwar Japan’s classical music world and remained at the forefront of some of the greatest symphonies on the planet, died of heart failure on Feb. 6. He was 88.

The Aiken Symphony, led by Music Director and Conductor Dr. Scott Weiss, will perform music by the greatest composers of all time in The Three Bs. The concert will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3 ...