The soprano and her pianist husband offer a deeply considered look at the human condition through seven distinct songs.

The famed Frenchman brings all his elegance and colorful playing to music by Ravel, Brahms and Villa-Lobos.

The celebrated conductor brought Her Story, a potent piece by Julia Wolfe, to Kennedy Center audiences recently.

Stradivarius violins often sell for millions. There's a long history behind them, and violinists who swear they sound better than modern ones.

Morgiane, perhaps the oldest opera by a Black American, finally receives its full public performance, shedding light on the forgotten heyday of opera in New Orleans.

On his new album, the British keyboardist offers both engaging and entertaining contemporary works for the misunderstood instrument.

The rising star of the British Kanneh-Mason family offers vigorous Chopin, serene Liszt and a stirring spiritual at the trusty Tiny Desk upright piano.

Discover a wide range of this year's most compelling classical music, from symphonic thrill rides and soaring voices to delicate baroque suites, ambient adventures and one groove-laden masterwork.

Composer Laura Kaminsky's intimate new opera, Lucidity, centers on an aging opera singer, portrayed by the 80-year-old soprano Lucy Shelton, dealing with the effects of memory loss.

The youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition makes our trusty upright piano sound like a 9-foot grand in music by Liszt and Tchaikovsky.

NPR's A Martínez speaks with Dutch brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen about their new EP, Rêve, featuring piano duets by lesser-known composers influenced by — or rejecting — French Impressionism.

A nearly 200-year-old music manuscript by composer Frédéric Chopin was recently unearthed at a museum in New York.