Ian Skelly plays the best classical music for your morning, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar ...

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 ...

It’s time for new rules. The Metropolitan Opera, once fearful of upsetting its base with too much novelty, is now desperate enough to try a novel diet of new operas. The New York Philharmonic begins ...

December – a month measured out in Messiah s and Christmas carols, New Year’s Eve waltzes and other musical novelties.

This was the grimly honest way mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges described to me what happened this year — to her fast-rising career, and to all of classical music after the coronavirus pandemic forced the ...

The Metropolitan Opera returned with its first work by a Black composer, the repertory slowly got richer, and other highlights of the year. By Anthony Tommasini Zachary Woolfe Joshua BaroneSeth Colter ...

It seems like a lot of movies use some of the same classical music pieces over and over again. Or sometimes at least just in the trailers. Whatever. My problem is that I never know what the heck the ...

Just as the 2008 presidential election exposed and ultimately crossed gender, racial and generational barriers, many of the year's notable recordings explored and wrestled with different kinds of ...