The year’s finest collections include ones devoted to composer Charles Ives, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and violinist ...

From Aussies like Simone Young trailblazing on the world stage through to the improvisatory genius of Bill Bailey, 2024 was a ...

OUSSAMA ZAHR There may have been no harder hitting one-two punch in music this year than Julius Eastman’s “Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc,” a harrowing solo vocal work ...

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 ...

Moor Mother’s “The Great Bailout,” Daniil Trifonov’s Chopin Society recital and Richard Egarr and the SPCO’s Bach ...

Mozart and Chopin wrote their music hundreds of years ago. In recent months, their music was still being discovered in ...

As usual, my retrospective list of the “best” classical and opera offerings of ... One piece featured players from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Beijing’s Central Conservatory ...

London has more world-famous symphony orchestras than any other city in the world ... The Victorian era saw a proliferation of classical music organisations, beginning with the Philharmonic Society, ...

Born in 1964 into a Shanghai musical family, Yu was hailed by The New York Times as "the most powerful figure in China's classical music scene", who has been consistently introducing the world's ...