A few minutes into the pilot for Bridgerton, Netflix’s latest breakout series with all the lush trimmings of your classic Jane Austen adaptation, viewers with a discerning ear were given a treat: The ...

Belinda Niling Stohner was always told the concert hall was the best place for classical music. She didn’t believe it. Yes, you have the acoustic design, the heavy velvet curtains, the audience seated ...

This year’s String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam saw big names and rising stars play 113 works from Beethoven to Larcher, plus masterclasses, a DJ – and free biscuits. Can you have too much of a good ...

When you’re a kid, playing in the high school orchestra and feeling disconnected from the popular zeitgeist means any music that incorporates classical instruments is something to be celebrated. And ...

Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...

The Riedel of the title is Georg Riedel, the renowned Czech-born, Swedish bassist and composer. Active since the 1950s, Riedel played in the ensembles of Arne Domnerus and Lars Gullin, as well as ...

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The versatile young members of the Ebène Quartet have been pricking up a few ears lately. It's due to their recent genre-twisting album Fiction, in which they indulge their fantasy of functioning not ...

The Danish String Quartet is one of the most widely acclaimed chamber groups at the moment — although, in the interest of full disclosure, we should tell you that one member of the quartet is actually ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen as our writers and some of our favorite artists share music of intimacy, intensity and joy. In the past, we’ve chosen the five minutes or so we ...

Pop, rock and a little bit of Bach. That’s what listeners can expect to hear when the trio strings band, Naples Strings, shows up to play. “We’ve been playing together for a long time, so there wasn’t ...

TROUBLED LIBERTY,” released on Juneteenth, marks a major milestone for the trio and serves as the lead single from ...