What music do you play for a spectacular moon display?
When a stunning celestial display makes you want to break out in song, cue up some classical music that features the moon in a starring role. Here’s your must-hear lunar soundtrack.
Delve into all the glorious details of your favorite music with this collection of deep cuts.
When a stunning celestial display makes you want to break out in song, cue up some classical music that features the moon in a starring role. Here’s your must-hear lunar soundtrack.
On the surface, early music and jazz don't appear to have so much in common, but the two share a deep kinship. Consortium Carissimi perform consciously explores this kinship through an alternating series of early Baroque madrigals and settings by jazz composer Jeremy Walker.
Sound engineer Julie Gardeski talks about what it's taken to succeed in a complicated, ever-changing field.
Vocalists and instrumentalists don't tend to hang out together - but if they did, what could the singers teach the players?
The music is new for them, and their world expands. I listen with them, as if for the first time, and it is new again for me.
Chamber ensemble names tend to fit into a few categories, I've found.
'Der Rosenkavalier' is the most popular work by the team of composer Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Classical MPR's Rex Levang has compiled a few bits of trivia that you might not know about this iconic opera.
In 2009, archaeologists in southern Germany discovered the earliest known instrument -- a 35,000-year-old flute made out of a vulture bone. You can hear a modern silver flute -- played with the same techniques as that old bone flute -- with the Dorian Wind Quintet in concert.
Delve into all the glorious details of your favorite music with this collection of deep cuts.
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