As an executive at Columbia and RCA Records, he popularized the classics for mass audiences by applying the same techniques used to sell pop music. By Adam Nossiter R. Peter Munves, a record company ...

Twenty famous masterpieces by the most important composers in history are brought closer to the viewer through first class concert broadcasts. Examples from the musical scores help the viewer to ...

Clarinetist Anthony McGill and pianist Gloria Chien take on Carl Maria von Weber’s Grand Duo Concertant—a piece as bold and virtuosic as its name suggests. It’s a spirited musical conversation between ...

Steve Hackman is a musical anomaly. For several years the multi-hyphenate composer, conductor, producer, DJ, arranger, songwriter, singer, and pianist has been on an artistic campaign to bridge the ...

Across at least a dozen interviews spanning more than two decades, Zakir Hussain is nothing if not consistent. In just about every conversation he’s preparing to fly off to India or has just returned ...

Thinking outside the canon, and finding the gritty and the beautiful, within it. By Joshua Barone and Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim JOSHUA BARONE Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical ...

After graduating from the Osaka College of Music in 1988, Yoko Shimomura was torn between career paths. Classically trained since the age of 3 and raised in a family of piano players, Shimomura had ...

If you're an iPhone owner who subscribes to a local symphony orchestra or has a favorite Brahms concerto, you'll fall in love with Apple Music Classical instantly. If you’re an iPhone owner smitten ...

Few art forms on earth are more indebted to class privilege than Western classical music. For most of its history, it has relied on monarchs, aristocrats, and wealthy patrons even to exist. We have ...

Like U.S. history, classical music has become a new front in the culture wars as musicians and music institutions grapple with the legacies of racism. With most performing arts organizations shuttered ...

The case against the music-streaming industry is as damning as ever. The leading services pay pittances to artists—usually, less than one cent per play. In a textbook demonstration of monopoly ...