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In a piece on his latest album, the Pulitzer-winning composer uses a code of musical notes to spell out the name of his wife, Natasha. Another composition is inspired by her remarkable resilience.

Sunday, March 28, 20217:00 PMOn WCRB In Concert with Rockport Music, acclaimed violist Paul Laraia joins the Aizuri Quartet and friends for chamber pieces…

"Common Tones in Simple Time" is featured on a 'minimalist' album brimming with sublime subtlety, which, like so many things in life, is much more than it…

With the help of a few "wrong" notes, the principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic turned "America the Beautiful" into a solemn protest of police violence.

Women rarely received credit for their creative work in Colonial America. But with a new album, one scholar is reviving the works of the women who lived and composed at the Ephrata Cloister.

When I asked Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital about his newest album and how it differed from his previous mandolin albums, he answered me with a wry,…

Return to The Exponential Creativity of Adès and the BSOThomas Adès [00:00:00] It has the strongest sense of place of any piece I can think of up to that…

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.

“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.

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