For 40 years, ECM New Series has been a product of its founder’s vision and an indispensable part of the recording landscape.

It’s always risky revisiting a piece that knocked one sideways long ago and hasn’t been performed since. The possibility of ...

When the new music picks are this plentiful, why wait until December to reveal which albums have caught the eyes (and ears) ...

As usual, my retrospective list of the “best” classical and opera offerings of the year has a lot more to do with lasting impressions than definitive rankings. This was a year of big tours and ...

And, in Brahms’s Piano Quintet, the group’s electric music-making was abetted by Jeremy Denk on a late-19th-century Steinway. WOOLFE Read our overview of concerts at the Frick’s new concert ...

Last year, he edited Philip Glass Piano Etudes, a new edition of the music, which he performed in various venues. Earlier this year, his orchestrations graced the Sufjan Stevens-inspired Broadway ...

With such an exhaustive array of works and versions out there for the high-brow music fan, is classical music still being ...

The Viennese composer created soundscapes that blend moody passages with elegant lyricism and a dose of unruly wildness.

Classical music has formed the bedrock of videogame soundtracks since developers could shove something vaguely Chopinesque onto a three-channel sound chip.

Come discover the charms of the imperial European city so beautiful, it’s inspired composers, artists, and royalty (and ...

A few hundred people gather in front of a large white tent in the peaceful spa town of Duszniki-Zdroj, nestled on the ...

Classical music, with its layers and interplay of voices, demands a higher level of awareness and offers richer rewards. Then, the surrounding noise melts away.