Now in his sixth season with the orchestra, an acclaimed conductor struggles to define his mission.
Just 34, Santtu-Matias Rouvali led works by Tchaikovsky, Sibelius and Bryce Dessner.
Whipping between the establishment and the avant-garde, this pianist and composer is a rising star at 25.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
The grand summer event in Austria will mark its centennial with 44 days of operas and concerts, and a dose of modernism.
The pianist Maxim Lando, 17, displayed stamina and brilliance in his New York recital debut. But he still has room to grow as an artist.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s new “Gemini” anchored a politically charged program at the New York Philharmonic.
“I won’t be around for all that,” the 82-year-old master of musical Minimalism said. “It doesn’t matter.”
She performed at St. Paul’s Chapel but was told she could not collect health benefits as a “responder” after developing cancer years later.
Angela Hewitt, in the first of three recitals at the 92nd Street Y, began the final phase of her four-year journey through Bach’s complete keyboard works.
The musician Stephen Morris said, “I’m still getting over the shock” at the unlikely recovery of his instrument.
James MacMillan’s setting of the centuries-old poem will have its American premiere at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
The conductor Philippe Jordan, not seen at the New York Philharmonic since 2007, is back but with repertory staples and mixed success.
Anna Meredith has written music for orchestras and choirs. But her latest venture is an album with her band.
The show, which weaves new songs into the classic “Dichterliebe,” arrived at the White Light Festival starring the soprano Julia Bullock.
The baritone Christian Gerhaher and the pianist Gerold Huber brought a sublime evening of song to Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival.
Mr. Chou taught the leading Chinese composers of the day and was an assistant to the modernist master Edgard Varèse, whose legacy he tended.
They would stay up until the wee hours discussing the state and future of classical music.
Andrew Wheeler, the current administrator, takes issue with two former administrators. Also: “New Sounds”; what the economics profession needs.
Mark-André Hamelin explored a Russian wild side, while Paul Lewis hewed to core repertory. Yet both were adventurous in their way.
She worked closely with her husband, the composer Gyorgy Kurtag, as a performer, muse and critic and was also deeply involved in his writing.
Jordi Savall’s latest program traced a 16th-century missionary’s travels to share his interest in musical traditions from Europe, Africa and Asia.
The tenors Christoph Prégardien and Ian Bostridge offered New Yorkers a selection of the earliest known song cycle to the genre’s latest addition.
The soprano Julia Bullock is on the verge of an unconventional career.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
After beginning as a 17th-century specialist, Mr. Leppard became a conductor with a broad repertory, leading the Indianapolis Symphony for 14 years.
As some institutions shy away from oil and gas money, the prestigious music event has a new sponsor: Gazprom.
In her third appearance with the orchestra, she proved once again why she’s one of the most exciting and in-demand conductors of her generation.
The composer died last month. But not before finishing his Sixth Symphony, which premiered on Friday in Cincinnati.