Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Icelandic composer and double bassist Bára Gísladóttir - Rui Camilo As the winter evenings draw in, music becomes a solace as well ...

As usual, my retrospective list of the “best” classical and opera offerings of the year has a lot more to do with lasting impressions than definitive rankings. This was a year of big tours and bold ...

To say we were spoilt for choice in choosing 10 classical recordings from 2025 for your Christmas stocking would be putting it mildly. Despite the endlessly repeated prophecies of the “death of ...

As part of our Guide to the Arts in PRIME Magazine, entertainment writer Ben Crandell offered his Critic’s Picks for the best in classical music shows coming up in ...

Lately it seems like every year, when I look back on my favorite classical albums, I always think, "Well, let's face it: It's been a pretty cruel year, and this is the music that helped get me through ...

Allan Clayton and members of the Dunedin Consort applaud composer Tom Coult in Blythburgh Church during the 2025 Aldeburgh Festival The festival sensibility needn't run to a huge number of concerts.

If you’re holding your breath awaiting the end of the compact-disc era, don’t exhale quite yet. Because, yes, there’s more. Believe it or not, the great conductors of the past (to say nothing of ...

The Wigmore Hall at 125: a celebration of one of our best classical venues - IN FOCUS: The hall went through a relatively barren patch in the 1970s but since then its reputation as a centre for the be ...