December 12, 2025 • Guitarist Sean Shibe pushes his instrument to the limit in new music written for him by Thomas Adès, and softens the vibe with intimate pieces by Bach, Mompou and the eccentric ...

Johannes Brahms was reluctant to compose his first symphony and be judged against Beethoven, to whom he had been compared. So he started off with music for his own instrument: his Piano Concerto No. 1 ...

Classical conditioning is a form of associative learning in which a neutral stimulus (conditioned stimulus, CS) is paired with another stimulus (unconditioned stimulus, US) that brings about an ...