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This 20th-century maestro could be extreme at the podium, but he also believed in the “beauty, joy and goodness” of an artist’s calling.

The pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is appearing at Carnegie with Dvorak’s “Poetic Tone Pictures,” a rarity being performed there for the first time.

She challenged racial barriers when she joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1972. But she became embroiled in a legal battle when she was denied...

Raphaël Pichon has quickly become one of the most interesting conductors not just in his specialty of period instruments, but in classical music.

Michael Gordon’s new work reflects on his father’s flight from Poland in 1939 and the migratory life — and buried traumas — that followed.

The Symphony in F sharp has rarely been championed by major orchestras. But now, Kirill Petrenko’s Berlin Philharmonic is taking it on tour.

A survey of Walter’s recorded output is fascinating for the ways in which it reveals him reinventing the traditions he was seen to represent.

With the St. Lawrence Quartet, he played with such enthusiasm that often he swept himself from his seat. At the Spoleto Festival USA, he was...

The English composer deserves a fresh assessment as the world does (and doesn’t) observe the 150th anniversary of his birth.

Stutzmann, the only female music director among the largest 25 American orchestras, takes the podium with a strong sense of self.