But this has been a year above all for the best of festival planning, the sort where you feel enriched by connecting threads.

Discover a broad range of this year's most compelling classical recordings, including symphonic booty-shakers, mystic violin, ...

A Rainbow in Curved Air and Shri Camel are equally enjoyable, the latter reflecting the composer’s fascination with North ...

Multi-CD surveys devoted to Herbert von Karajan, Pierre Boulez and Steve Reich are among the year’s finest classical-music offerings.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. No one needs reminding that 2025 began in an L.A. aflame. Musicians didn’t escape the fires, especially in ...

Thinking outside the canon, and finding the gritty and the beautiful, within it. By Joshua Barone and Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim JOSHUA BARONE Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical ...

Gustavo Dudamel launches the fall season with a world premiere by the Hawaiian composer Leilehua Lanzilotti and Charles Ives’s panorama of Americana, the Symphony No. 2. Yunchan Lim joins in for ...

Naysayers be damned. Classical music on record continues to thrive, or so it seems judging from the plethora of boxed sets that have come our way this year. As ever, milestone birthdays were ...

From homegrown heroes to visiting legends, here are Australia's favourite classical music and jazz stories this year.

Minnesota Orchestra’s “Turandot,” Dmitry Sinkovsky with the SPCO and Joshua Bell at the Minnesota Beethoven Festival were ...

Guarneri Hall has been a valued space among classical music insiders, thanks to its central location and unique acoustics. A new music series may open the hall to new audiences. Even when you’re right ...

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...