The unflashy maestro, who died on Thursday, gave orchestras a sound with integrity, weight and gravity, without heaviness.
Li Yundi, a famous performer, was accused of soliciting a woman, state news outlets said. Officials often use such accusations against their enemies.
Mr. Haitink, who was closely identified with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, drew direct, unaffected interpretations of symphonic works and opera.
Music by Missy Mazzoli, Anthony Davis and John Adams was conducted by Dalia Stasevska, in her debut with the orchestra.
Sofia Gubaidulina and her richly colored, rhythmically adventurous music are being celebrated around the world this season.
Acquired taste is often richer than, as it were, the easy score.
An ensemble of 18 string players who are Black and Latino set a reflective and spirited tone on Friday, with solos by the charismatic bass-baritone Davóne Tines.
With a debuting pianist and conductor, a solo by Clara Schumann preceded works by her husband and Brahms.
Students objected after the composer Bright Sheng showed the 1965 film of Laurence Olivier’s “Othello” to his class at the University of Michigan.
Few composers have broader stylistic reach. But on a new album, “A Prayer for Lester Bowie,” he makes it all cohere.
Visa delays are causing tumult in the classical music industry, leading to a wave of cancellations just as live performances are finally returning.
For 43 years he was a steadying force with the ensemble as he helped it become one of the world’s most esteemed.
The trilogy of “The Damned,” “Death in Venice” and “Ludwig” is whole again, in editions that freshly reveal their conflicted queerness.
Wayne McGregor’s full-length work, a collaboration with Thomas Adès and Tacita Dean, opens at a moment of purgatorial relevance.
Nathalie Stutzmann will be the only woman leading a major American ensemble when she takes the Atlanta Symphony’s podium next year.
The Isarphilharmonie in Munich, a prefabricated stopgap during a renovation, is trying to lure listeners far from the city center.
This weekend, Jonas Kaufmann gave a recital at the vast Carnegie Hall, while Will Liverman appeared at the intimate Park Avenue Armory.
The dynamic conductor Xian Zhang opened the symphony’s new season at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on a balmy night in Newark.
After a 572-day closure, the hall was lit by a vibrant concert from the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.
Listen to the best of opera’s defining diva, chosen by Patti LuPone, Renée Fleming, Marina Abramovic and many more.
Two critics discuss Terence Blanchard’s “Fire,” the Metropolitan Opera’s first work by a Black composer.
His celebrated works drew from the musical traditions of revival meetings and country hoedowns, telling stories of intolerance.
Haydn piano sonatas, a Shostakovich explosion and the fantastical opera “Sweet Land” are among the highlights.
Here’s a glimpse of young musicians this summer — playing and practicing.
We heard from some of our favorite artists about the music that moves them most.
“Because of the practice of music, I delve into the inner life of whatever we are. I don’t have any answers, but I keep poking around.”
Curtis Stewart, a violinist and New Yorker, played surprise performances around the city. The show was part of a program that is bringing Lincoln Center musicians to the city’s streets.
Lucas Debargue recorded 52 of these single-movement works on a four-disc, four-hour survey.
So many overtones were there when they met backstage at the Blue Note jazz club.
Ron Howard’s new documentary, Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the Carnegie Hall podium and summer travel were among the highlights.
Performances at the Orchestra of St. Luke’s Bach Festival include works by the choreographers Pam Tanowitz and Margie Gillis.
In two appearances, the busy conductor showed how he aims to balance directorships in New York and Philadelphia.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Listen to works by composers who died during the crisis, the focus of a New York Philharmonic concert.
Two of David T. Little’s politically charged instrumental works were the halves of a Composer Portrait concert at Miller Theater on Thursday.
The company’s artistic director resigned, just two weeks after he announced his second season.
George Crumb at 90, the opening of the Shed, and a new album of David Sanford's music were among the highlights.
Whether he was writing a Restoration period biography or a book on war poetry, his background in music informed his approach.
The filmmaker Khaled Jarrar and the composer Du Yun created “Where We Lost Our Shadows,” which was performed by the American Composers Orchestra.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
The New York Philharmonic’s Phil the Hall program drew emergency medical workers, public service professionals and volunteers from the city to a special concert.
The busy yet listless staging of Janacek’s song cycle continues at the Brooklyn Academy of Music through Saturday.
The Seattle Symphony’s posthumous live premiere of George Walker’s Sinfonia No. 5 could be a game-changer for the pioneering composer’s legacy.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
A new production by Ivo Van Hove with a live orchestra makes the writer Thomas Mann a character in his most famous creation.
His production of Janacek’s “Diary of One Who Disappeared,” little performed even in concert, comes to the Brooklyn Academy of Music on April 4.
Mr. Loussier’s trio, formed in 1959, played Bach’s music with jazz inflections, selling millions of albums and performing around the world.
With the Philharmonia, with whom Mr. Salonen has worked for over three decades, he has helped shape a sound that is muscular, smooth and cohesive.
One of the nation’s finest orchestras has been hit by the latest round of labor upheaval in the economically challenged classical music field.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.