By Joshua BaroneCorinna da Fonseca-WollheimZachary Woolfe and Oussama Zahr The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics see and hear much more than they review. Here is what hooked ...

It's the headline violinists, bassoonists and bangers of big expensive drums look for each year: classical music is back, and young people like it again. To be fair, the data mostly checks out ...

But a crucial step is skipped because it has puzzled scientists since the earliest days—how does the real, classical world emerge from, often, a large number of solutions for the wave functions?

For more than three centuries, German-British composer George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” has been a staple of the classical canon during the holidays. It’s a vaulting oratorio, in English, of the ...

World-renowned conductor Marin Alsop leads the BBC Concert Orchestra in an uplifting reinterpretation of this seasonal favourite, as Handel’s masterpiece is infused with gospel, jazz and R&B ...

It's probably the most-heard piece of classical music on Earth ... (Doubleday), gives us the backstory of "Messiah" and its "Hallelujah Chorus," which comes about two-thirds of the way through ...

Alsop, with arrangers Bob Christianson and Gary Anderson, capture the essential core of Handel’s work – with its famous Hallelujah chorus - while reimagining the arias, choruses and ...

A celebration of the astonishing breadth of talent from 60 years of BBC Two’s finest classical performances. From its first days on air in 1964, BBC Two has placed classical music at the centre ...