The chorus and orchestra dramatically shift between piano and fortissimo passages of music, guaranteed to grab the attention of any audience. Outside of the concert hall, ‘O Fortuna’ became the UK’s ...

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 ...

Symphonies make up some of the most famous classical pieces. One of the best-known is Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. It opens with one of the most well-known themes in music history and has been ...

By Joshua BaroneCorinna da Fonseca-WollheimZachary Woolfe and Oussama Zahr The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics ... anvertraut,” at the top of Act III. At the Met, Volle ...