Mainstream audio and video streaming services don’t offer much for classical music lovers. Fortunately, we've rounded up the best platforms dedicated to the chamber, opera, and orchestral art forms ...

Naysayers be damned. Classical music on record continues to thrive, or so it seems judging from the plethora of boxed sets that have come our way this year. As ever, milestone birthdays were ...

Classical music and jazz. They’re like jealous siblings who deep down love each other, but just can’t stop rowing in public. At least, that’s how it used to be. In recent decades they’ve been ...

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 ...

We proudly announce the nominations for the 2026 BBC Music Magazine Awards - all the very finest classical albums released ...

For great British pop musician David Bowie, classical music was one of many important influences, says Andrew Green ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Proms has to be the greatest classical music festival on Earth, as welcoming to the nervous classical novice as it is to the ...

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But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...

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 ...

From the rolling hills of Somerset to the Cornish coast, Britain knows how to do a music festival. But if you prefer a string quartet to a pop hit, you’ll be glad to know classical music also ...

What followed is a 55-year love affair with classical music — branching out to discover greats like Brahms, Bruch, Mahler, Chopin, Copland, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Elgar as well as lesser known ...