Grammy nominations for Gustavo Dudamel, L.A. Phil, Gabriela Ortiz

Grammy nominations for Gustavo Dudamel, L.A. Phil, Gabriela Ortiz

Recordings by Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic nabbed six 2025 Grammy nominations Friday, with Dudamel and the orchestra picking one up for orchestral performance for their work on composer Gabriela Ortiz’s “Revolución Diamantina.” […]

Chamber music revives Doheny Mansion, Sierra Madre Playhouse

A vintage postcard shows palm trees in front of a large, ornate home

Summer is the season when chamber music, that most intimate of musical genres, meets the great outdoors. At America’s destination festivals, you can find chambers by sea (La Jolla SummerFest), in the desert (Santa Fe […]

Amen Dunes Announces Tour Dates, Shares New “Round the World” Video: Watch

Amen Dunes at Pitchfork Music Festival 2024

Amen Dunes has released another single from his new album. The new song, “Round the World,” follows Death Jokes’ “Purple Land” and “Boys,” and it comes with a video directed by Steven Brahms (the director […]

From A-listers to tennis legends: 20 famous figures who are also surprisingly musicians

From A-listers to tennis legends: 20 famous figures who are also surprisingly musicians

Skoove scoured the internet for 20 famous figures, from athletes to actors to politicians, who you might not know are also musicians. – Scott Dudelson // Getty Images Madison Troyer Experts agree that having a […]

Gustave Dudamel and L.A. Phil score 2024 Grammy nominations

Gustave Dudamel and L.A. Phil score 2024 Grammy nominations

The Los Angeles Philharmonic led by conductor Gustavo Dudamel earned major nods Friday in the 2024 Grammy Award nominations, led by their performance of the fantastical “Adès: Dante.” Dudamel — who announced in February that […]

At last, Hyperion recordings are streamable. We pick some of the standouts | Classical music

Pianist Stephen Hough,

Classical music was slow to join the streaming revolution, but the range of recordings available on the likes of Spotify and Apple Music has grown steadily year on year and today a large proportion of […]

Wise Music Group Acquires Controlling Interest in Edition Peters Group

Wise Music Group

Photo Credit: Marius Masalar Wise Music Group acquires a controlling interest in classical publisher Edition Peters Group, one of the world’s oldest and most prominent music publishing organizations. Wise Music Group has announced the acquisition of […]

L.A. Phil 2023-24 season celebrates Disney Hall, Frank Gehry

Gustavo Dudamel conducts.

Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Frank Gehry-designed home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with a 2023-24 season that will pay tribute to the hall and its architect, the orchestra […]

Best of the rest: the classical CDs we missed in 2022 | Classical music

French composer Charlotte Sohy (1887-1955) aged 40.

Despite more than a decade now of dire predictions of the terminal decline of the classical recording industry there’s still no sign of its imminent demise. Companies may come and go, and the emphasis of […]

2023 Grammy nomination for Gustavo Dudamel and the L.A. Phil

2023 Grammy nomination for Gustavo Dudamel and the L.A. Phil

Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic have earned a Grammy Award nod for best orchestral performance alongside another L.A. nominee, conductor Christopher Rountree’s experimental new music chamber orchestra, Wild Up. The two groups are […]

How low can you go? Singer Iestyn Davies’s melancholic playlist | Classical music

Lutenist Thomas Dunford.

Music is “a sovereign remedy against despair and melancholy, and will drive away the devil himself”, wrote Robert Burton in The Anatomy of Melancholy, first published in 1621. Yet music is not simply a cure […]

‘Butt-shakers and toe-tappers’: Ramsey Lewis brought jazz to the people | Jazz

Lewis warming up before a taping of Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis in 2005.

For the first half of the 20th century, jazz musicians would interpret the popular music of the age, with Tin Pan Alley hits, Broadway showtunes, blues songs and Latin dance numbers providing the basis for […]

‘With Lars Vogt, there was a collective trust and spirit of generosity between orchestra and maestro’ | Classical music

Lars Vogt conducts the Royal Northern Sinfonia at Newcastle station in 2016.

In January 2014, Lars Vogt stepped on to the stage at Sage Gateshead to make his UK conducting debut with Royal Northern Sinfonia. Lars had an endearing and quiet confidence, even when trying something new. […]

Hayato Sumino: Bringing classical music closer to a younger generation

Hayato Sumino: Bringing classical music closer to a younger generation

World famous Maestro Marin Alsop and sensational pianist Hayato Sumino during intense rehearsals with the NOSPR orchestra of Poland before their grand tour in Japan. — © Radosław Kaźmierczak / NOSPR Every once in a […]

Johannes Brahms: Complete Symphonies review – constantly fascinating performances | Classical music

The cover artwork for Johannes Brahms: Complete Symphonies.

Though these days we generally hear the Brahms symphonies performed by a full-sized symphony orchestra of 70 or 80 players, the composer himself is said to have preferred smaller forces. The orchestra in Karlsruhe, which […]