Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical music and opera. That, perhaps, is why I love to be surprise ...

We take a look at the arias, movements, songs and dances whose fame has outshone the larger works in which they first ...

To say we were spoilt for choice in choosing 10 classical recordings from 2025 for your Christmas stocking would be putting ...

It’s time for new rules. The Metropolitan Opera, once fearful of upsetting its base with too much novelty, is now desperate enough to try a novel diet of new operas. The New York Philharmonic begins ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Feats, farewells and musical treasures in a year of post-pandemic financial pressures. By Zachary Woolfe and Joshua Barone ZACHARY WOOLFE Last year ...

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 ...

Julia Wolfe’s UnEarth will be on at the Barbican in January - Barbican As the winter evenings draw in, music becomes a solace as well as a pleasure. So far this year we’ve enjoyed a Proms season for ...

Apple Music Classical for iOS and iPadOS has been updated with some new features, including curated stations and listening guides that are synchronized to the timings of popular classical works. Users ...

It seems like a lot of movies use some of the same classical music pieces over and over again. Or sometimes at least just in the trailers. Whatever. My problem is that I never know what the heck the ...

Ian Skelly plays the best classical music for your morning, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Including the Playlister challenge: our regular listener-created ...

Classic rock wouldn’t be the same without classical music. The Beatles’ “Let It Be” is based on one of the most famous classical pieces ever. So are a lot of other pop songs! The Beatles’ ‘Let It Be’ ...