Fireworks From Cuba, And Schubert That Grooves: New Classical Albums
Although it always seems fashionable to forecast the downfall of classical music, enterprising musicians both young and not so young continue to make deeply satisfying recordings. For this visit to...
View ArticleA Know-It-All's Guide To Olympic Music
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View ArticleHeadbanging Bruckner And Debussy In Black And White: New Classical Albums
Some people are intimidated by the vastness of classical music. And while the prospect of more than 1,000 years of hits to consider may be daunting, just think instead of how many musical journeys of...
View ArticleCecilia Bartoli's Latest 'Mission' Rediscovers Agostino Steffani
Cecilia Bartoli has a passion for musical archaeology: "I am the Indiana Jones of classical," she says jokingly to All Things Considered host Robert Siegel.Bartoli rummages through music history to...
View ArticleElliott Carter, Giant Of American Music, Dies At 103
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View ArticleA Bald Mezzo And Three Shades Of Violin: Classical Favorites From 2012
From mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli's ambitious revival of the early Baroque composer Agostino Stefani (and yes, she's got another outrageous album cover) to three very different roles for the violin,...
View ArticleWhat Ever Happened To The Classical Christmas Album?
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View ArticleMeasures Of Affection: Five Musical Love Letters
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View ArticleVespers, Habaneras And Early Morning Walks: New Classical Albums
Robert Frost's famous poem "The Road Not Taken" begins with the line: "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood." Frost's traveler must choose between them. But slide that metaphor over to the world of...
View ArticleRevved-up Vivaldi, Persian Bamboo And Soaring Spirituals: New Classical Albums
It's a brave new musical world. Between downloads, iPods, music sharing websites and the good old CD, we have more easy access to the songs and symphonies we love than ever before. In this visit to All...
View ArticleBanjos, Bartók And La Belle Époque: New Classical Albums
People ask why I thrive on classical music, and I tell them it's all about discovery. The possibilities for finding incredible music, both old and new, are endless as the oceans.
View ArticleI Hear Bells: The NPR Music Wedding Puzzler
Can you hear the wedding bells? June has arrived. Theories vary on why this is the month for marriage. Old traditions like the timing of the harvest season (and pregnancies) might have had something to...
View ArticleBest Songs Of The Year (So Far) Puzzler
The year is half over and that means NPR Music and our public radio partners have been obsessing over our favorite songs of the year so far.
View Article'La Marseillaise' Unmasked: A Bastille Day Puzzler
"The Star Spangled Banner" turns 200 this year, and the attention it's been getting is again a reminder of how difficult it is for many Americans to sing our national anthem.Not so for the French, who...
View ArticleMeet The Cast Of The Met Opera's Labor Drama
Think opera plots are tough to follow? Try wading through the complicated drama playing out offstage at the Metropolitan Opera. At its most basic, it's the story of management and labor unions fighting...
View ArticleAsk Us Anything About Beethoven
What do you know about Beethoven? He wrote the Fifth Symphony (da da da dummmm ...) and he became deaf.There's obviously a lot more to the man and his music, and one person who surely knows is composer...
View ArticleDrum Fill Friday: Classical Headbanging Edition
Sooner or later it had to happen — an all-classical Drum Fill Friday. This week's puzzler proves that the world of Beethoven, Stravinsky and Bartók can serve up beats as thunderous as any double...
View ArticleSoul-Searching Music From A Serene Desert Monastery
Inspiration can come from unlikely places. For composer Robert Kyr, the silence of a desert monastery is key to the radiant music on his new disc of recent choral works performed by the vocal ensemble...
View ArticleFirst Listen: Cameron Carpenter, 'If You Could Read My Mind'
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View ArticlePacifica Quartet: Tiny Desk Concert
With this Tiny Desk Concert by the Grammy-winning Pacifica Quartet, we have the opportunity to explore the world of a single composer.
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