OUSSAMA ZAHR There may have been no harder hitting one-two punch in music this ... else so often all year. DAVID ALLEN Antonin Kraft (1749-1820) was a notable cellist of his time, and an ...

Classical music on record ... before anyone else did what American music could and ought to be. Mr. Thomas’s tributes happen to come at roughly the same time as two celebrations of the man ...

There’s something truly magical about a classic Christmas song and its ability to fill a person with the Christmas spirit, conjure memories of the kind of holiday you’re meant to dream of when ...

By Joshua BaroneCorinna da Fonseca-WollheimZachary Woolfe and Oussama Zahr The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics ... Coursing through it all is a four-note theme, of three ...

With some of my choices for this year’s classical and jazz concerts, we know exactly what we’re in for, such as Britten ...

Classical music on record ... and this box offers some of his best recordings, most with the Swiss ensemble. Can there possibly be enough time to listen to all of this, and so much more?

The Music: Beiser's vision is all about pulses, drones and the low C string of her ... A tolling piano and a whoosh of air usher us into the piece; by the time we reach our final stop with "Almanac," ...

Naturally, not all ... music may come to mind, and Eastman’s jubilance. But Rountree has crafted his own musical language here, one he’s called a musical framework for togetherness. A tolling piano ...