On a dank January evening in St Albans, there seemed little sign of life or excitement on the streets. To reach my ...

BY DIANA SALESKY   Concertmaster William Shaub has something for everyone in his upcoming Concertmaster Series installments February 4/5 at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Pre-Valentine’s Day, Shaub will ...

Nate Bargatze, Chaka Khan and Mrs. Doubtfire are in Jacksonville in February, but the Olympics are on. Time to start planning ...

The cellist and the pianist famously have a more competitive relationship in Brahms’ Cello Sonata in E minor than in many compositions for solo instrument and piano. Brahms composed it for the ...

Chicago might have already hit its first deep freeze, but the local classical music scene pulses with life this season. Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, the Chicago Symphony’s artist-in-residence, ...

Here’s what went into Will Sharpe’s preparation for the piano scenes in Sky Arts’ new adaptation of ‘Amadeus’. “The idea of playing Mozart was quite scary,” he said, “which perversely, perhaps was a ...

American pianist and composer Chloe Flower is on a mission to get young people into classical music. She’s doing it by collaborating with rap, house and pop stars, and creating her own genre of music, ...

With a new year comes the urge to listen a little more closely, and Seattle’s classical offerings in the first months of 2026 provide ample opportunity. These seven events — spanning Bach in fresh ...

In a high-concept meta bait-and-switch, Pam Tanowitz choreographed Beethoven’s Pastoral symphony, then swapped out the score for a new para-Pastoral, by Caroline Shaw. Anyone (okay, almost nobody) can ...

Let us make the case that the most successful music conservatory is not in Paris, Vienna or Berlin but rather, in a house on a tree-lined street in Nottingham, England. It might be an unpretentious ...

A new vinyl issue of the Castlevania: Symphony of the Night soundtrack is being prepped for release by creators Mondo and Manawave. Since 1986, Castlevania’s intellectual property (IP) has spanned ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to recordings by Maria Dueñas and Daniil Trifonov, works by Thomas Adès and Tania León, and more. London Philharmonic Orchestra; Thomas Adès, ...