The balance is visible across the season's masterworks lineup, where works by living composers Polina Nazaykinskaya, Jessie ...

Beethoven's Ninth has topped the ABC Classic 100 countdown for the fifth time. We explore its mystique and shed light on ...

At 83, Ilaiyaraaja still scores music for a handful of films each year. He recently performed his Valiant Symphony in Chennai ...

Classical CDs: Elves, Oak Trees and Misty Windows Carl Nielsen: The Ultimate Solo Piano Collection Rikke Sandberg (OUR ...

The Houston performance came on the heels of other orchestras in the region celebrating the work of the composer this month.

Symphonies have long struggled with shrinking audiences, yet some classical performances are packing concert halls with music from video games, TV shows like Game of Thrones, new and old pop charts, ...

Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews biographies of two musicians who transcended jazz, and to whom recognition was slow in coming: James P. Johnson, born in 1894, and Alice Coltrane, born in 1937. This is ...

This is FRESH AIR. There are two fat, new biographies of composers and pianists born 43 years apart. Their music transcended jazz, but recognition for their work was slow - James P. Johnson, born in ...

Kinshasa isn’t the kind of city that waits for you to be ready, the city just takes over your experience. It is a metropolis of staggering contradictions, where the ghosts of Belgian colonialism ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra's latest recordings on the Deutsche Grammophon label — "Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie" and "Shostakovich: The Cello Concertos" won two Grammy Awards Sunday night, ...

Is Joseph Haydn's music boring? Not at all, say Paavo Järvi and the musicians of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. On their musical journey through Haydn's symphonic works, they discover new and ...