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The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink had a six-decade career leading major orchestras across Europe, the U.S. and the U.K. He was hailed as a musician's musician, prizing the art well above glamor.

Known primarily for his southern-flavored operas, Floyd helped create an American opera vernacular. His 1955 hit Susannah won the New York Music Critics Circle Award and helped launch his career.

“Music for String Quartet” was never published, never performed, and was nearly lost to time — until now. John Perkel, the former orchestra librarian for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, joined Arun Rath on All Things Considered to discuss the discovery.

The vocal ensemble Skylark emerges from 19 months without concerts, releasing a brand new album, "It's a Long Way."

Five recently released classical albums you are guaranteed to fall in love with, from hauntingly ethereal winter music, to a stunner of a piano album, and everything in between.

It's every musician's worst nightmare, but violinist Ray Chen had it handled. Also in this roundup, a reversed piano, a sugarplum fairy, and a tiny, tiny violin.

A new album, marking the Russian composer's 90th birthday, is packed with probing works for huge symphonic forces.

Deep in the heart of Texas, the Kronos Quartet reflects on race relations and social unrest with At War with Ourselves – 400 Years of You, by composer Michael Abels and poet Nikky Finney.

Composer, conductor and MacArthur "genius" Mathew Aucoin just debuted his opera, 'Eurydice,' at the Met. The new work reinterprets an ancient, archetypal myth from the perspective of its namesake.

A group of sixth, seventh and eighth grade students realized there was no children's book about the composer Florence Price. So they wrote, illustrated and published their own.