Do You Actually Know What Classical Music Is? Does Anyone? The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition. By Matthew ...

How to Listen to Classical Music, and Enjoy It The second in a series on how to appreciate Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven in an age of Radiohead, Outkast, and Animal Collective By Benjamin Carlson ...

You may have heard the claim that listening to classical music makes you smarter. But is this just a myth, or does classical ...

Decca Classics invited the world’s foremost electronic producers, including Mr Scruff, Starkey, Martin Buttrich and Kate Simko, to pick a track from their archives and rework it for a new album ...

Luciano Pavarotti, the Italian tenor with a glorious voice that made him the opera world's greatest star as he brought classical singing to the masses on a scale never before imagined, died today.

Composers used to like nothing better than to sit down at the harpsichord or pianoforte and improvise on their own works. Bach, Handel and Beethoven were as well known for their improvisations as ...

The scion of Yiddish theater royalty announces a “coda” to a spectacular career leading orchestras and writing music. “How long can you live with memories?” asks 91-year-old Holocaust ...

Italian Music in the Age of Exploration (The Fleetwood Singers; Lyrichord. stereo). Skillful, spirited performances of madrigals by a dozen all-but-forgotten composers of the 16th century.

Why is the Internet Archive streaming classic music by Frank Sinatra and Chuck Berry, among others, without a license?

Apple's long-awaited dedicated classical music app today appeared on the App Store and is available for pre-order ahead of its launch at the end of March. Speaking to TechCrunch, Apple said that ...

Before Indian classical music loses its diversity, an online project is rushing to archive it A sweeping, hugely ambitious online project is documenting traditional knowledge systems, pedagogy ...