In December 2000, KRCU general manager Greg Petrowich and "Sunday Night at the Opera" host Barbara Herbert drove to Poplar Bluff, Mo., in a pickup truck on a mission to bring more classical music to ...

This disc’s sleeve note suggests that Kabalevsky’s Cello Concerto No. 2 “owes an obvious debt to the composer’s colleague and one-time neighbour Dmitri Shostakovich”. It does indeed, several passages ...

In 1958, Bernard Coutaz was a journalist who wanted to be his own boss and go into publishing -- and because he was a music lover, the Frenchman started Harmonia Mundi to publish records like an ...

The Lyric FM label has been putting out a wealth of great Irish music since 2004, writes ARMINTA WALLACE WE HEAR so many gloomy noises emanating from the classical recording industry these days that ...

Francisco Fullana is, to my knowledge, the first violinist to record Max Richter’s ingenious Four Seasons Recomposed since the initial outing with Daniel Hope on Deutsche Grammphon (among my favorite ...

Ted Libbey is director of media arts at the National Endowment for the Arts and author of "The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection." It seems that every time you look around someone else ...

Chopin’s solo piano études helped push the genre into uncharted territory. He would have practiced examples by Czerny and Clementi in his youth, but his own Op. 10 and Op. 25 sets make far more ...

Longtime fans of Performance Today will know the name -- and recognize the chipper voice -- of Ted Libbey. For a dozen years, Libbey was Performance Today's primary authority on classical recordings, ...

Ted Libbey is the author of "The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection" and the forthcoming "NPR Encyclopedia of Classical Music." He is heard every week on National Public Radio's ...

Who are the three Bs? What’s the difference between a symphony and an orchestra? Which instruments make up a piano quartet (Hint: It’s not four pianos). If you’re interested in building a classical ...

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