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Nico Muhly’s arresting and textural ambient accompaniment to visual artist David Hockney’s immersive exhibit "Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away)" finds new life on the Bedroom Community label.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra's President and CEO talks about his earliest discoveries in music, what drew him to Boston as a student, and why he returned to lead the BSO.

Virtuosic pianist and composer Beethoven suffered from several debilitating ailments. A new study suggests lead poisoning may be at least partly to blame.

The former Boston Symphony violist and current Director of the TMC describes the growing strengths of the legendary summer academy in the Berkshires and its most significant challenges and opportunities.

The Lithuanian composer, now based in New York, creates layered, deliberate music that she hopes will grant listeners the freedom to enter an altered state of mind.

One of the great things about the Bard is how adaptable his plays are. There are endless ways to interpret them — on stage and on screen, sure, but also in music!

Boston-based choir Nightingale Vocal Ensemble shakes up the classical choral format with their entirely improvised debut album “Composition Sped Up.”

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.

Monteverdi lived at the crossroads of the Renaissance and the Baroque, and his operas changed the course of music history.

Much ink has been spilled in writing books about classical music. Here are some staff favorites.