In the Emperor Concerto, dynamics were carefully balanced, with a glassy delicacy to the music-box passages and a richness to the jubilant fanfares.
Unpleasant humor at a Yuja Wang event, a violin concerto and Gerald Finley were among the highlights.
The Danish conductor, set to become the next music director of the Seattle Symphony, made his New York Philharmonic debut with stirring Schumann.
A Carnegie Hall performance by the superstar pianist and the duo Igudesman & Joo raised questions about comedy based on stereotypes.
Aaron Diehl will perform as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s weekend-long series “William Grant Still and the Harlem Renaissance.”
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Arts writers for The New York Times share their strategies (snacks) and budget-friendly options (outdoor events) in a discussion about introducing children to the arts.
Daniel Harding, who brings the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to Carnegie Hall this week, has struggled when conducting American orchestras.
In an evening of song, rap and piano-bench yoga, the star pianist swapped concertos for sketches with the musical comedy duo Igudesman & Joo.
Her research raised the profile of a composer too often overshadowed by her husband and established her as a major figure of German Romanticism.
The 27-year-old pianist ventures into overlooked corners of the repertory in a Carnegie Hall recital.
The New York Philharmonic's new season and Messiaen in a crypt were among the highlights.
Vastly unalike, Tan Dun’s “Fire Ritual” and Brahms’s “A German Requiem” are both full of luminous color and reflect complex attitudes toward death.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Jeremy Denk, 48; Behzod Abduraimov, 28; and Leon Fleisher, 90, all offered exceptional New York performances.
For Jaap van Zweden’s second season as music director, New York’s orchestra is commissioning 19 new works by women to celebrate the 19th amendment.
Harry Nilsson’s “Gotta Get Up” appears at least 10 different times in Natasha Lyonne’s darkly comic series. Here’s why.
Mr. Sylvan brought to life characters in John Adams’s “Nixon in China” and “The Death of Klinghoffer” during a career as a sensitive, eloquent singer.
The soprano Aprile Millo's solo recital and a new production at the Paris Opera were among the highlights.
Layale Chaker’s new album, “Inner Rhyme,” draws on her Lebanese roots as well as the Western classical path she’s traveled.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
The latest program in the orchestra’s “Sound On” series offered contemporary pieces related (in a way) to Julia Wolfe’s “Fire in my mouth.”
We pick our favorites from a season with an epic amount of birthday boy Beethoven: all the piano sonatas and string quartets, and two symphony cycles.
The soprano Christine Goerke and the conductors Gustavo Dudamel, Simon Rattle and Ivan Fischer are highlights of the 2019-20 Great Performers series.
The school honors today’s most important patrons of classical music — European radio stations like BBC, WDR and SWR.
An opera in Paris, a new oratorio and Leon Kirchner’s birthday were among the highlights.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
The field and audiences are watching for the fruits of a new relationship at the San Francisco Symphony.