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 ...

I’m a sucker for a well-produced box set, and some of this year’s choices examples included celebrations of conductors Paavo Berglund (Warner Classics), William Steinberg (DG) and Louis Lane (Sony).

The year 2024 was an emotional roller coaster. Wars kept rampaging, a tortured election season further divided an already polarized nation and climate change served up the most scorching summer on ...

The future: Guildhall Gold Medal finalists clarinettist Kosuke Shirai, double bass player Strahinja Mitrović (the winner) and harpist Heather Brooks ...

With Christmas over and New Year's just ahead, let’s look back at the year that was 2024 for classical music in San Diego. Superstar pianist Lang Lang performed at the Rady Shell in April and the ...

200 years after it was first known to have been performed in 1784, in 1984 the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (ASMF) recorded Mozart's Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major (K. 361) — also known as the ...

Top 10 classical music events in the Twin Cities in 2024 Moor Mother’s “The Great Bailout,” Daniil Trifonov’s Chopin Society recital and Richard Egarr and the SPCO’s Bach “Brandenburg” Concertos were ...

Best Classical Compendium is awarded to an album collection containing at least 51% playing time of newly recorded material of performances (vocal or instrumental) by various soloist(s) and/or ...

Between his 4th and 5th symphonies, Tchaikovsky composed his unnumbered "Manfred Symphony" in 1885. The Symphony was inspired by the 1817 Lord Byron dramatic poem "Manfred" in which the title ...