Click LISTEN NOW to hear Conductor Scott O'Neil and CPR Classical's Monika Vischer talk to Ryan Warner on Colorado Matters, January 30, 2023. Listen to CPR Classical at noon on Tuesday, January 31 to ...

Leopold Mozart is known to us as “Mozart’s father”. But his fame isn’t entirely vicarious: Every violinist – at least in the German- (and partly in the French-) speaking world – knows him through his ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer Ann Clyne (credit: Victoria Stevens), composer John Adams (credit: Christine Alicino). Mozart's Violin Concerto #5 is the type of piece you can stomp your feet along ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Classical music is rooted in the old world, but it pays careful mind to the present. Orchestras, opera companies, universities and foundations are constantly ...

Says castmember Malcolm McDowell, "When I did 'A Clockwork Orange,' Beethoven was never so popular, so if we can do the same for classical music that 'Clockwork' did for Beethoven, it would be ...

There have been fortepianists before Ronald Brautigam and Kristian Bezuidenhout upon whose shoulders those two might be said to stand. But none had managed so convincingly to bring the fortepiano into ...

What followed is a 55-year love affair with classical music — branching out to discover greats like Brahms, Bruch, Mahler, Chopin, Copland, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Elgar as well as lesser known ...

What’s the difference between a viola and a trampoline? You take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline. Those damn viola jokes! Though usually good-natured and funny, they nonetheless belittle a ...

Mozart’s death, on December 5, 1791, is still so mysterious that we can’t seem to stop investigating it. Detail of Johann Nepomuk della Croce’s portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Public domain. Okay ...

In recent years Britain has become the Willy Wonka of social control, churning out increasingly creepy, bizarre, and fantastic methods for policing the populace. But our weaponization of classical ...

Why is classical music so hard to enjoy on streaming services? In one word, it's metadata. Metadata is the information that coexists with every digital music file: each and every piece of information ...