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

Vox Luminis, the vocal and instrumental group based in Namur and led by Lionel Meunier, continued their residency at the ...

Paring a year’s worth of standout music releases down to a neat Top 10 turned out to be a fool’s errand, so this year’s list expands to a Baker’s Dozen—thirteen new and reissue albums that genuinely ...

Like much on the mind of the general public, climate change is now in the voices of Opera Philadelphia in The Seasons, an ambitious opera/dance expansion of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons warning of a ...

FOR THE EARS Go Bach to the Concert Hall and Get a Handel on the Holidays Whil Pro Musica packages its bounty of year-end concerts as a Bach Festival, they have a wider range than the convenient title ...

The first solo album in three years from the New York rapper (and his first release since his twin 2023 stunners, the Kenny Segal collab Maps, which landed on our 2023 year-end list, and Armand Hammer ...

Highlights should include Telemann’s Trumpet Concerto — a showcase of Baroque clarity and rhythmic vitality — and selections ...

The world of classical music has gotten a modern makeover. The Bach Society of Saint Louis has spent 85 years celebrating the work of Johann Sebastian Bach and other classical composers through ...

My goal was to take the Messiah as if it had been written yesterday,” the conductor and eminent French harpsichordist Christophe Rousset told Tom Service on Radio 3 on Saturday. “[It would be] as if ...

Discover a broad range of this year's most compelling classical recordings, including symphonic booty-shakers, mystic violin, pipe organ prog and a guided tour of 18th century German chart-toppers.

A highlight of both concerts will be the appearance of an octet of world-class vocal artists, internationally recognized for ...

With an orchestra comprised of Baroque Era instruments, and a performance guided by Milnes’s extensive research into Handel’s ...