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Old Italian violins like those made by Stradivari are famous for their ability to project their sound. But a study found people in a blind test thought new violins projected better than old ones.

On June 1st, 1967, the US release of the Beatles’ album "Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band" rocked the music world. We're a classical music station,…

Jacques Offenbach - composer of the "Can-can" and king of light Opera - wrote one "serious" opera: a fanciful setting of the life and stories of the…

NIH Director Francis Collins and Renée Fleming, who is Artistic Advisor at Large for the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., discuss music and medicine. They also sing a duet.

Love, madness, and dealings with the devil: it's the rise and fall of Tom Rakewell in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress!Igor Stravinsky: The Rake's…

In an animated and vibrant performance of one of Mozart's most perfect works, Norwegian baritone Johannes Weisser plays the unscrupulous title…

Ravel claimed that all music could be transcribed for instruments other than those for which it was originally written, as long as "good taste presides."…

Classical.org, the premiere digital classical music entertainment experience, debuts in January 2018. More details coming this Fall. (Sign up here to be…

The famous 89-year-old pianist has spent a lifetime perfecting Chopin. Along the way, the composer has reached out from the great beyond in a few startling ways.

A few days ago, while Googling a piece by Ravel, I noticed something unusual in the "related searches" sidebar: a link to purchase one of the many albums…