What followed is a 55-year love affair with classical music — branching out to discover greats like Brahms, Bruch, Mahler, Chopin, Copland, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Elgar as well as lesser known ...

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...

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 ...

You may not know the name Teresa del Riego, but maybe you should. The Spanish/English composer wrote more than 300 ballads. Her music was performed routinely throughout her long lifetime (she lived ...

Our critic tracked one concert, from its first rehearsals to its first performance. Practice is only part of what makes this ensemble excellent.

Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya occupies a rare space in global music history. He is the first Indian artist inducted into the ...

In the week that we mourn the death of the Guardian’s long-serving classical music critic, composers, performers, colleagues and others who knew and worked with him pay tribute to a writer whose ...

It seems like New Yorkers’ desire to hear chamber music and opera performed in city crypts and catacombs is at an all-time high. Death of Classical has been putting on concerts in unexpected corners ...