It's been a terrific year for classical music. From passionate piano solos to lush orchestral works and beyond, here are our favorite classical recordings released in 2024!
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Celebrate the season with traditional carols, festive brass, jubilant jazz, and seasonal classics, live from our Calderwood Studio! Click here to watch on demand.
CRB Blog
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What does the holiday season mean to you? For me, it means Hallmark movies! Here are five classically-inclined Hallmark Christmas movies that are worth checking out. -
For some, it’s not Christmas until they hear “that one piece” of music. We’ve gathered ten more to add to your list! -
Boston-based choir Nightingale Vocal Ensemble shakes up the classical choral format with their entirely improvised debut album “Composition Sped Up.” -
Much ink has been spilled in writing books about classical music. Here are some staff favorites.
GBH Music Presents
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Watch violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing and pianist Llewellyn Sanchez–Werner take an extraordinary sonic journey to Scandinavia while exploring themes of environmentalism, climate change, and our connection to nature. -
GBH Music and Boston Lyric Opera presented MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient and Grammy Award-winning musician and composer Rhiannon Giddens.
On Demand
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On WCRB In Concert with Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman conducts Handel’s beloved oratorio — a timeless story of faith, redemption, and joy. -
On WCRB In Concert with Blue Heron, the acclaimed vocal ensemble transports us to the 1440s through carols, plainchant, hymns, and mass settings for the season. -
On The Bach Hour, one of the composer's crowning masterpieces is channeled through the intimate resonance of the harp, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Cantata No. 61, for Advent.
From NPR Music
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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 Bach Hour
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On The Bach Hour, Gerhard Weinberger performs the composer's Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch" on an instrument Bach himself tested when it was new.
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