A curious thing happened while classical music organizations were busy worrying that their programming had grown too conservative. Since the pandemic, more or less, concert halls are full of new works ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer Ann Clyne (credit: Victoria Stevens), composer John Adams (credit: Christine Alicino). Mozart's Violin Concerto #5 is the type of piece you can stomp your feet along ...

Click LISTEN NOW to hear Conductor Scott O'Neil and CPR Classical's Monika Vischer talk to Ryan Warner on Colorado Matters, January 30, 2023. Listen to CPR Classical at noon on Tuesday, January 31 to ...

"If you were to give me a choice right now to go and make some chamber music or to have dinner with friends, I would choose the chamber music. I found the few opportunities that I've had to do that ...

NEW YORK – Khatia Buniatishvili has been one of the most well-known classical musicians for more than a decade, but she prefers to keep the chatter about her celebrity buried beneath the crescendo of ...

Slimmed-down Brahms is more common than it used to be, and geeks will probably cherish a pioneering set recorded in the 1990s by Sir Charles Mackerras with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Robin ...

This piece originally aired October 12, 2016. Row after row of Sangiovese grapevines cover the hills of Montalcino in Tuscany, where famed Brunello wine is made. But one of these vineyards is a bit ...

Leopold Mozart is known to us as “Mozart’s father”. But his fame isn’t entirely vicarious: Every violinist – at least in the German- (and partly in the French-) speaking world – knows him through his ...

In recent years Britain has become the Willy Wonka of social control, churning out increasingly creepy, bizarre, and fantastic methods for policing the populace. But our weaponization of classical ...

This is one of the groups that has really helped to shape the future of classical music. You might've heard this term "indie classical" or "alt classical" being kicked around, and this scene is really ...

Last month, Amazon posted the entire first season — 10 episodes — of a new series about classical music, "Mozart in the Jungle." The series, which stars such luminaries as Bernadette Peters, Malcolm ...