Discover a broad range of this year's most compelling classical recordings, including symphonic booty-shakers, mystic violin, ...

While I don’t subscribe to the belief that classical music should be embraced as a kind of aural sedative for harried hearts and minds, concert halls do provide a place to turn off your phone and ...

To say we were spoilt for choice in choosing 10 classical recordings from 2025 for your Christmas stocking would be putting it mildly. Despite the endlessly repeated prophecies of the “death of ...

The new year’s highlights include the premiere of Anthony Davis’ children’s opera, soprano Susan Narucki, a Bach choral mass ...

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In 1919 Ottorino Respighi wrote music for a new one-act ballet by orchestrating short piano pieces written late in life by Gioachino Rossini (about 60 years before). The resulting ballet numbers ...

This time of year, I’m reminded of an old cartoon in which an elegant lady in a billowy dress is overlooking an Alpine landscape: “The great outdoors,” she gushes, “I just love them!” Whether you’re ...

Few things are more depressing for classical music lovers than the classical recording charts. Your eye roams despairingly down the endless lists of crossover and ambient pap, looking for something ...

It’s time for a check-in with GBH’s classical music connoisseur, Brian McCreath, director of production at GBH Music and host of CRB’s Boston Symphony Orchestra broadcast. He joined GBH’s All Things ...

In his final orchestral composition, Sergei Rachmaninoff looks back on his life and proposes a look forward after death. His "Symphonic Dances" from 1940 are in three movements with the first quoting ...