5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Yunchan Lim’s collection of Chopin piano études, a new recording of Terry Riley’s “In C” and works by Marc-André Hamelin are among the highlights.
Yunchan Lim’s collection of Chopin piano études, a new recording of Terry Riley’s “In C” and works by Marc-André Hamelin are among the highlights.
The superstar’s 11th album is a 31-song excavation of her recent relationships that is not universally loved. Our pop team dissects its sound, themes and reception.
By Jon Pareles, Ben Sisario, Lindsay Zoladz and
Peter Gordon, who studied with Terry Riley, has always made music that is surprising but accessible. Now he’s starting his own record label.
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The opera-oratorio, an alternate Nativity story, featured a flurry of Met debuts, including the director Lileana Blain-Cruz and the conductor Marin Alsop.
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Anthony Roth Costanzo, Star Countertenor, to Lead Opera Philadelphia
Costanzo will be a rare figure in classical music: an artist in his prime who is also working as an administrator.
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Cristian Macelaru, Decorated Maestro, to Lead Cincinnati Symphony
He will begin a four-year term as the orchestra’s music director in the 2025-26 season, succeeding Louis Langrée.
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Costuming a Small Army of Virgins for the Met Opera’s ‘El Niño’
The challenge for Montana Levi Blanco, the Tony-winning costume designer for John Adams’s oratorio, was how to keep straight so many Marys.
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For Her Met Opera Debut, Lileana Blain-Cruz Directs ‘El Niño’
In an interview, Blain-Cruz explained why an oratorio like John Adams and Peter Sellars’s “El Niño” is more difficult to stage than the usual opera.
By Joshua Barone and
Review: Children Sing of Resistance at the Philharmonic
Olga Neuwirth’s “Keyframes for a Hippogriff,” a chaotic explosion of postmodernism, had its American premiere, conducted by Thomas Sondergard.
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His expertise on the electromechanical Mellotron helped define the band’s progressive sound in the 1960s and ’70s on albums like “Days of Future Passed.”
By Richard Sandomir
Possibly the most prolific archival record producer in history, he was a founder of the Mosaic label, which became the gold standard of jazz reissues.
By Giovanni Russonello
A discussion about the singer’s new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” her “imperial era,” rumored relationships and production choices.
The rapper, Toomaj Salehi, was initially arrested after releasing music in support of the 2022 protests over the death of a young woman in police custody.
By Cassandra Vinograd and Leily Nikounazar
The singer talks about finding a new home for her first hit.
By Alex Barron, Lynn Levy, Michael Paulson and Daniel Ramirez
SFMOMA explores the galaxy of visual and technological design that has long revolved around the music we love.
By Chris Colin
The rapper, producer, actor and vegan talks about the connections between meat and masculinity, animal welfare and the environment.
By Cara Buckley
Listen to soon-to-be inductees Cher, Foreigner, A Tribe Called Quest and more.
By Lindsay Zoladz
In “Rebel Girl,” the punk frontwoman reveals the story of her life — the men who tried to stop her, the women who kept her going and the boy who made her a mother.
By Amanda Hess and OK McCausland
Nine years after the release of the album that changed his life, the saxophonist is bringing new collaborators and new parts of himself into his work.
By Hank Shteamer
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