10 first-time Grammy nominees for 2024
Stacker highlighted 10 artists nominated for a Grammy at the 2024 awards ceremony for the first time. – Rick Kern // Getty Images Eliza Siegel Look at the list of Grammy nominees for 2024, and […]
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The 10 best contemporary albums of 2023 | Music
10. Neil Gaiman and FourPlay String Quartet – Signs of Life Sydney-based string quartet FourPlay have made a name by playing versions of music by various rock and jazz artists, including Radiohead and Metallica, but […]
LA Philharmonic Concert-Goer Has “Loud” Orgasm: Report
I’ll have what she’s having! Err, what she’s listening to… and the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 seems to have done the trick. Concert-goers are reporting that someone in the audience […]
Ahmad Jamal, measured maestro of the jazz piano, dies at 92 : NPR
Ahmad Jamal, pictured in 2016. Rémy Gabalda/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rémy Gabalda/AFP via Getty Images Ahmad Jamal, pictured in 2016. Rémy Gabalda/AFP via Getty Images For most jazz performers, a song […]
Best of the rest: the classical CDs we missed in 2022 | Classical music
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 […]
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 […]
Classical home listening: The Hibernian Muse; Mariam Batsashvili’s Romantic Piano Masters | Classical music
Albums that sidestep familiar repertoire always deserve attention. The Irish Baroque Orchestra’s The Hibernian Muse (Linn), with the vocal group Sestina, is shaped around music played at festivals at the turn of the 18th century, […]
Carnegie Hall Announces Comeback Season for 2022-2023
Photo Credit: Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall has announced its full comeback season for 2022 through 2023, with over 150 concerts scheduled. “Since Carnegie hall re-opened from its extended closure seven months ago, it has been […]
Radu Lupu obituary | Classical music
The Romanian pianist Radu Lupu, who has died at the age of 76, shot to prominence in the UK when he won the Leeds Piano Competition in 1969, giving an acclaimed Wigmore Hall recital in […]
Proms 2022: Fiona Maddocks’s pick of this year’s festival | Proms 2022
Proms 5 and Prom 6 BBC Philharmonic (18 & 19 July) Omer Meir Wellber conducts two Proms: the first with Cassandra Miller’s new Viola Concerto played by Lawrence Power, the second with the fourth symphonies […]