Considering the death of the classical CD, the past, present and future seemed to be healthfully represented on disc in 2014, particularly at Deutsche Grammophon, the long-time classical class act.

A funny thing has happened to the classical music world over the past decade or so: It is swimming in compact disc recordings. This realization recently struck Shelburne pianist Paul Orgel, a critic ...

Amidst all the recent talk of a “vinyl resurgence” and the renewed admiration for physical media in music, one niche seems to miss its fair share of the attention. Countless reissues, think pieces and ...

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For anyone who still thinks of Antonio Vivaldi simply as the composer of The Four Seasons, it may come as a shock to learn not only that the manuscripts of over 450 of his other works are currently ...

As classical music isn’t my usual beat I often look to the company of “friends” to entertain me. Joseph Campbell advised that we focus on one artist and follow him or her, rather than just collect ...

In 1996, American composer john Adams wrote a whirligig of a piece called "Scratchband." In its short running time, woodwinds and brass chase each other through thrashing figures so drunk on high ...

Best known by far is Michael Tippett’s Piano Concerto, a top-three in my Tippett favourites list, alongside the Fantasia on a Theme by Corelli and the Second String Quartet. I observed recently in ...

Back in February of 2013, George Pieler and I wrote a column here on Forbes.com (“Two Cents About Classical Music For $100”) on some of the market- and technology-changes that affect this sneakily ...

Pope Francis popped into a record store in Rome late Tuesday, exiting with a CD of classical music in hand. Francis, 85, made an unannounced visit to the store, and a Vatican reporter who happened to ...