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.

Eric Lu from Massachusetts is the first American pianist to win the award since Garrick Ohlsson in 1970.

A double dose of Mozart! First, pianists Gloria Chien and Michael Brown perform the Andante and Five Variations in G Major. Then later, Mozart’s Divertimento in E-flat Major for Violin, Viola and Cello interpreted by Arnaud Sussmann, Paul Neubauer and David Finckel.

The BBC Philharmonic welcomes pianist Paul Lewis to perform Beethoven’s third piano concerto, under the baton of conductor John Storgårds. The program also includes Gustav Holst’s The Planets Suite, and a new work commissioned by BBC Radio 3: Grace-Evangeline Mason’s Ablaze the Moon. 

Canadian pianist Tony Siqi Yun tackles a program of masterworks for his Ravinia debut. Music by Brahms, Liszt, Busoni, and Schumann abound, with Beethoven’s “Appasionata” Sonata as the concert’s centerpiece. The Canadian-born pianist Tony Siqi Yun, Gold Medalist at the First China International Music Competition (2019) and awarded the Rheingau Music Festival’s 2023 Lotto-Förderpreis, is quickly becoming a sought-after soloist and recitalist. At the age …

On this week’s episode of Sounds Classical, Kristina and LaRob sit down with composer Michael R. Oldham at the piano to discuss his music, inspirations, and thoughts about creating music that evokes emotions using many stylistic elements. They’ll also share music by Claude Debussy, Sufjan Stevens and even Janelle Monáe!

The internationally-acclaimed Portuguese pianist released a statement explaining her decision.

The prolific pianist, writer, and composer leaves behind a profound recording catalog and legacy with hundreds of albums released between the 1950s and the 2000s.

Any chamber music demands a deceptive level of coordination and mastery. But what about when two artists are playing the same instrument, side-by-side?

Short in length, the newly unearthed waltz bears many of Chopin’s signature characteristics: drama, melancholy, and a penchant for beautiful melodies.

On this week’s episode of Sounds Classical, Kristina and LaRob sit down with composer Michael R. Oldham at the piano to discuss his music, inspirations, and thoughts about creating music that evokes emotions using many stylistic elements. They’ll also share music by Claude Debussy, Sufjan Stevens and even Janelle Monáe!

Though his life was short, Frédéric Chopin’s prolific output lives on, inspiring listeners and artists like few others.

Soloist Kirill Gerstein and an ensemble of all-star festival musicians in a rare and spectacular performance of György Ligeti’s Piano Concerto. Plus, the Miami String Quartet perform Dvořák’s American String Quartet.

“I grew up in a house with art and artists,” Pollini said in an interview. “Old works and modern works coexisted together as part of life.”

“These period pianos, they all have the ability to play as soft as possible and I think still there’s something there, there is still a core inside.”

Pianist Wynona Wang performs music by Zhang Zhao, Wanghua Chu, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Ludwig van Beethoven.

A conversation with the distinctive American pianist.

Orth samples standout works from the whole of Liszt’s compositional career, including selections from the Romantic virtuoso’s signature Années de pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage).

“The more I studied music, the more I saw the similarities between weaving and what I do.”

WFMT spoke to the Chicago-born Lewis in 2015, when, at the age of 80, his music received its first CSO performance.

German pianist and conductor Lars Vogt has died. The musician was diagnosed with cancer in February 2021 after tumors were found on his throat and liver, and succumbed to his illness on September 5, 2022.

Pianist Elliot Wuu, who is in his early 20s, visited Chicago to perform works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Robert Schumann that were both written when the composers were in their 20s.

Lupu was renowned for his thoughtful interpretations of “19th-century German and Austrian piano works, especially those of Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms,” notes WFMT’s Candice Agree.