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

Amidst all the recent talk of a “vinyl resurgence” and the renewed admiration for physical media in music, one niche seems to miss its fair share of the attention. Countless reissues, think pieces and ...

While CDs are certainly in decline, they haven't vanished from shelves quite as quickly as anticipated. Indeed, when it comes to consumers of classical music, there remains a good deal of interest in ...

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

For anyone who still thinks of Antonio Vivaldi simply as the composer of The Four Seasons, it may come as a shock to learn not only that the manuscripts of over 450 of his other works are currently ...

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 ...

Soprano Julia Bullock's affecting solo debut, with its breathtaking spin on a deep cut by the enigmatic Connie Converse and a sublime rendition of Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, traces the ...

The history of classical music is that of progress, be it advancements in harmony and form, the invention and development of instruments, or the technological innovations of recording and broadcasting ...

Pope Francis popped into a record store in Rome late Tuesday, exiting with a CD of classical music in hand. Francis, 85, made an unannounced visit to the store, and a Vatican reporter who happened to ...

He sits squarely in front of us on the screen, a full-bodied man with a carefully trimmed white beard and a nearly bald head, his eyes looming behind dark-framed glasses—one eye glaring with cyclopean ...