“WFMT is the pinnacle of classical radio,” says Peter van de Graaff, who grew up listening to the station. “The voices I heard on WFMT were more than radio personalities to me.” Van de Graaff may be a longtime WFMT host with closer ties to the station than most, but that sense of personal connection is hardly unique, as anyone …

“Music is central to filmmaking,” Burns told WFMT. Rather than squeezing the music in after the film has been edited and reached a near-final form, they incorporate the soundtrack early on in the editing process.

Cellists are featured on four of this week’s new releases, which includes a brand new compilation by Gautier Capuçon.

Karina Canellakis continues her collaboration with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Altera’s arranges Christmas music for women’s voices, and more.

Big names across the classical and folk music worlds have released a number of entertaining albums to lighten up the shorter, fall days.

Learn why the violin is so pivotal in the development of modern-day string instruments.

The modern orchestra as we know it today only took shape in the last 150 years.

Elise K. Kirk, emerita director of the White House Historical Society, highlights ten US presidents who changed music in America through the music they presented at the White House.