The 10 Best Classical Albums of 2024
Discover a wide range of this year’s most compelling classical music, from symphonic thrill rides and soaring voices to delicate baroque suites, ambient adventures and one groove-laden masterwork.
Discover a wide range of this year’s most compelling classical music, from symphonic thrill rides and soaring voices to delicate baroque suites, ambient adventures and one groove-laden masterwork.
Olivier Latry is Notre Dame Cathedral’s longest-serving organist. Just days before the church’s gala reopening, after the destructive fire in 2019, he talks about the refurbished instrument — it holds 8,000 pipes — and its role in the church.
The Grammy winner and former Late Show bandleader unravels the crisscrossing threads of musical lineage from Beethoven’s own personal blues to the musical art form that undergirds Batiste’s Louisiana roots.
You can’t always know that it’s a great year for new music while it’s happening, but there was a sense from the very start of 2024 that we were in for a ride.
The Dallas-based Bruce Wood Dance company is kicking off its 15-anniversary season with the Dallas premiere of Jiri Kylian’s Songs of a Wayfarer in a program that also includes two audience favorites by Bruce Wood, plus a Mozart-inspired work by Lar Lubovitch. In this feature with WRR’s Amy Bishop, the company’s Artistic Director Joy Bollinger... Read more »
Composer Laura Kaminsky’s intimate new opera, Lucidity, centers on an aging opera singer, portrayed by the 80-year-old soprano Lucy Shelton, dealing with the effects of memory loss.
The youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition makes our trusty upright piano sound like a 9-foot grand in music by Liszt and Tchaikovsky.
Now entering its 30th year as a piano quartet, the Faure Quartett is bringing its renowned musicianship to Dallas for a program of Brahms, Schubert, and Enescu, as part of Dallas Chamber Music Society’s current season. In this feature with WRR’s Amy Bishop, violinist Erika Geldsetzer talks about the thrill of performing each work, and... Read more »
At last, the ambitious composer finds herself in the spotlight, with a Carnegie Hall residency and a sparkling new album featuring Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Over a career that lasted more than 30 years, Grammy-winner Adam Abeshouse made hundreds of records with some of classical music’s biggest stars.
Watch as Common and Aspen Music School students take the 1982 soft-rock hit and make something spontaneous, yet memorable.
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