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Cover art by Raul Urias/PlatoonDiscover 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. -
Bowie DunwoodyComposer 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.
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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. -
NPR's A Mart铆nez speaks with Dutch brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen about their new EP, R锚ve, featuring piano duets by lesser-known composers influenced by 鈥� or rejecting 鈥� French Impressionism. -
A nearly 200-year-old music manuscript by composer Fr茅d茅ric Chopin was recently unearthed at a museum in New York. -
To mark the 150th anniversary of the maverick American composer鈥檚 birth, pianist Jeremy Denk releases an Ives tribute album that educates, delights and confounds. -
The countertenor鈥檚 sparkling personality shines brightly in a wide ranging set that includes jazz, classical and spirituals. -
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. -
Adam Abeshouse was diagnosed with bile duct cancer last spring. His star classical music clients, including Joshua Bell, Simone Dinnerstein, Jeremy Denk, and Lara Downes, wanted to say goodbye. -
In The Listeners, a seductive cult leader and an unexplainable noise divides an innocent community and warps reality. Mazzoli's opera receives its U.S. premiere in Philadelphia. -
Puerto Rico鈥檚 unstable electric grid affects every sector of society, including the island鈥檚 rich cultural scene. An outage abruptly ended an emerging pianist鈥檚 recent concert, touching a nerve. -
A new album from the guitarist for the rock band The National spotlights pieces he鈥檚 written for friends like Katia Lab猫que, Colin Currie and Pekka Kuusisto. -
The rising young pianist, from a family of seven musical siblings, offers dynamic music by brother and sister Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn. -
Three years ago, nearly 300 young Afghan musicians, their teachers and staff from their music school fled Afghanistan in fear for their lives after their country fell again to the Taliban. NPR followed them on their journey from Kabul to a new life.
