My first favorite is Spotify's Piano in the Background playlist. This playlist includes hours of calm piano music, perfect ...

The melodic orchestral breakbeat is back! Although it never really left. I have not spent this much time on a track in a ...

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

Ruiz said the orchestra enriches the music. “You get this incredibly rich texture of sounds,” she said. “A lot of pop music was created with orchestral background music; it always enhances ...

These works represented Black orchestral music of a high order by any standards from early eras, but which, ironically, are only getting more stage play in recent years. Fresher excitement at the ...

The excerpts listed below are the result of William Stanley’s many years’ gathering solo passages from orchestral repertoire (with a nod to opera, chamber and brass ensemble) that he has played, ...