"He's the Axl Rose of Buffalo classical music," Robby Takac of the Goo Goo Dolls says. "He throws himself into every project he's involved in, with everything he's got." Takac is referring to Richie ...

What I'm calling An English Pastorale is an hour of music I've selected that I hope will suit the mood of the holiday season without sticking exclusively to Christmas music. Think of it as a brief ...

Apple is launching a new standalone app designed specifically for streaming classical music. Apple Music Classical will be available in late March, and will offer access to more than five million ...

If you're a classical music connoisseur, chances are you've never felt much love for the likes of iTunes and Napster. While iTunes boasts a decent helping of classical music, the DRM and low bit-rate ...

iTunes has always been designed for “songs,” and, for the most part, classical music isn’t a song-based genre. Because of this, organizing classical music in iTunes can be a bit complicated. But with ...

Christoph von Dohnanyi, who died on Saturday, was a conductor of clarity and poise, as evidenced especially in his output with the Cleveland Orchestra. By David Allen Known for his long tenure at the ...

Editor’s Note: Charlie Albright is a classical pianist and recipient of the 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant and 2010 Gilmore Young Artist Award. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his. The ...

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 ...

The violinist to whom Tchaikovsky dedicated his Violin Concerto called it unplayable and refused to do so. When the Concerto was finally premiered (by a massively under-rehearsed orchestra), one of ...

Louis Théodore Gouvy was a man of two cultures: France and Germany. He was born into a French family who lived in a region that fell into Prussian control shortly before his birth (1819). This ...