If you’re tired of hearing the same cheerful holiday songs on repeat since Nov. 1, Classical Blast is here with a classic rock-meets-Christmas experience. Formed in 2012, Classical Blast is known for ...

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

Trust them or trash them, the Grammy Awards rolled out once again last night. And, alas, there was no sign of classical music on the 210-minute telecast, but we've become used to that. All the ...

We'll head into the woods during our music this evening with Schubert's Night Song of the Forest, and Joaquim Raff's Symphony No. 3, In the Forest. Tune in at 8 pm on 91.1 and 107.5 FM and our music ...

In Hans Zender’s “composed interpretation” of the score (played herew by the excellent Britten Sinfonia under Baldur Bronnimann), Schubert’s music finds itself refracted through musical history. The ...

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, ...

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 ...