Category: NPR Music: Classical

The venerated string quartet makes a stop on its 50th anniversary tour to play music from the dawn of the string quartet era right up to the present.

Lara Downes sits down with the brilliant jazz harpist to discuss the power of female lineage in the worlds of jazz and classical music.

Some of the Italian composer’s most memorable film scores were recorded at Forum Studios in Rome’s Parioli neighborhood.

The Italian pianist and composer returns to his childhood in Turin on his latest album, The Summer Portraits.

Routinely called a “musician’s musician,” the pianist had an atypical career that even he called mysterious. He spent it returning to a handful of favorite composers, with acclaimed results.

The ambitious violinist has an insatiable appetite for new music, much of which she’s commissioned herself.

Myung-Whun Chung will be one of the first non-Italians to take the post of music director at Milan’s famous opera house.

Anxiety and panic attacks crippled pianist Simone Dinnerstein on stage, despite a stellar career. She shares how one common device helped her overcome the fear.

The MacArthur fellow sits down with Lara Downes at the Big Ears Festival to discuss the creative states of improvising, composing and collaborating.

In 1989, Trump took out full-page newspaper ads demanding the death penalty “for roving bands of wild criminals.” The Detroit Opera decided to program this work long before the presidential election.