The origins of classical music are rooted in Western Europe, with pieces originally being written for churches and royal courts. Given the genre’s long history, four periods have come to define ...

Calm and graceful, this cello piece by Bach slowly dances through hopefulness, longing and introspection. Take a few minutes ...

His music is, at last, starting to be programmed more regularly; on June 13, the New York Choral Society will present his recent “A Knee on the Neck” at David Geffen Hall.

Guy Johnston and Chiao-Wen Cheng at St. Luke’s Music at St. Luke’s opened its second season Oct. 29 — the first was all virtual — with a rewarding in-person recital that exceeded expectation.

And it’s another great way to appreciate classical music. Just like pop music, the music is more fun if you learn the story behind it. In this video we tell you how.

Inside Western conservatories and in musicology, classical music refers to a specific era of composition (as opposed to, say, Western music from the Early or Late Romantic period, Baroque, or ...

The post Hauser on Classic II and Why Classical Music Still Resonates in an Era of “Junk Music”: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. The musician explains the concept of the new album, how ...

Since I was responding to a list of recordings, I confined myself to artists active in the recorded music era, the 20th and 21st centuries — leaving out Hildegard von Bingen, Fanny Mendelssohn ...

There comes a point in virtually every concerto from the classical period when the orchestra comes to a sudden halt and the soloist takes flight with a couple of minutes of difficult (or at least ...

A June 2019 report from MIDiA Research that was commissioned by classical music streaming service IDAGIO delved into the listening habits of classical music fans, and the findings suggest that ...