The plush red seats of the Concertgebouw's main auditorium are occupied by students cramming for upcoming exams and finishing ...

After all, there are literally thousands of albums listed in the Phonolog record catalog, so choosing only ten "important" ...

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music. George Frideric Handel's stately Sarabande begins tonight's Classical Mixtape. French orchestral textures come in the shape of Germaine ...

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The Cure have won Best Alternative Music Album for Songs of a Lost World at the 2026 Grammys. They beat out the category’s other nominees Bon Iver (SABLE, fABLE), Hayley Williams (Ego Death at a ...

Welcome to New Music Friday, NPR Music's podcast dedicated to sharing the best albums out each week. We listen to dozens of new releases in advance, identify the ones we think you need to hear, and ...

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 ...

Allan Clayton and members of the Dunedin Consort applaud composer Tom Coult in Blythburgh Church during the 2025 Aldeburgh Festival The festival sensibility needn't run to a huge number of concerts.

My album of the year came as a real surprise to me, Arvo Pärt’s output hitherto not leaving much of an impression. But Credo (Alpha Classics), from the Estonian Festival Orchestra under Pärt's ...

Our favorite books this year (in no particular order) included definitive memoirs by music figures as varied as Ozzy Osbourne, Lionel Richie, and Cameron Crowe; chronicles of bands long gone and those ...

If you’re holding your breath awaiting the end of the compact-disc era, don’t exhale quite yet. Because, yes, there’s more. Believe it or not, the great conductors of the past (to say nothing of ...