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 ...

The conductor Stephen Layton achieves heavenly swells that push the choir’s plushness to ever greater volumes ... no harder hitting one-two punch in music this year than Julius Eastman ...

Wagner’s intoxicating music is more disturbing in this film than it ever is on the operatic ... would seem to be the kind of ...

By Joshua BaroneCorinna da Fonseca-WollheimZachary Woolfe and Oussama Zahr The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics see and hear much more than they review. Here is what hooked ...

The rigid forms of classical music ... of stand-alone orchestral music that evoked anything from a painting or poem to a feeling of nationalistic fervour. The Romantic era gave birth to the virtuoso.

Sundays, 9-10pm. Acclaimed singer and broadcaster Catherine Bott covers everything you ever wanted to know about classical music. It's one of the biggest non-fiction series in the history of British ...

No pianist is receiving more attention right now than Lim, who two years ago became the youngest-ever ... of the classical repertoire but also in their imaginative reworkings of folk music.