Many performers spend their entire life unravelling issues such as how Beethoven’s undiagnosed personality disorder affected his dramatic dynamic and harmonic shifts or how the death of Bach's wife ...

This quartet combines a glorious selection of blonde beards and moustaches and eyelashes and floppy fringes with playing that ...

Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...

The Danish String Quartet is one of the most widely acclaimed chamber groups at the moment — although, in the interest of full disclosure, we should tell you that one member of the quartet is actually ...

When you’re a kid, playing in the high school orchestra and feeling disconnected from the popular zeitgeist means any music that incorporates classical instruments is something to be celebrated. And ...

Turtle Island Quartet blends classical quartet form with jazz improvisation. Feb. 26 Singletary program 'Shades of Blue' honors Davis and Coltrane centennials. Tickets $12–$29; University of Kentucky ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Tyshawn Sorey’s tribute to the Rothko Chapel, a vintage Pavarotti concert and a release from the Berlin Philharmonic are among our selections. Kim ...