The Piano Concerto No. 2 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns opens with an extended piano solo. Usually, the orchestra plays long before the piano enters. Perhaps his most popular concerto, the ...

About the time in the late 1700s that the piano was undergoing major evolutions, Mozart's publisher contracted him to compose three Piano Quartets. After writing the first, the publisher released ...

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This essay originally appeared on the blog Scanning the Dial and is republished here with permission of the author. We often say that radio is one of the most intimate of all media. Classical radio, ...

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Their soothing tones and hypnotic arpeggios amass gigantic listening figures on ‘chill’ Spotify playlists, but composers such as Nils Frahm are shunned by the classical world Pitch darkness. Then a ...

Mood-based streaming playlists are creating hoards of new composer groupies as classical music finds a new generation of fans. By Dawn Chmielewski Diehard Bruce Springsteen fan Brandon Shaw used to ...