New music
Roland Kayn’s cybernetic compositions.
An interview with Brian Ferneyhough.
Amy Williams’s overlapping textures.
Philip Venables’ formalized violence.
Music of intricate construction and gut-punch intensity.
Uri Caine’s classical improvisations.
The musical realms of Elizabeth A. Baker.
Political art
On politics and solace in Schubert’s “Winterreise.”
The aesthetic campaigning of Against Modern Opera Productions.
A haunting new “Meistersinger” at Bayreuth.
What’s up at the Center for Black Music Research.
Venezuelans respond to Gustavo Dudamel.
What musicians listened to during the runoff between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
A playlist by Sung Jin Hong, artistic director of the One World Symphony.
Weird and wonderful
Concert Hall Hopping with Kate Wagner of McMansion Hell.
The enigmatic composer’s obsessions and influences.
What classical music gets up to on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
How two amateurs created the world’s most important resource on the French composer.
What classical music gets up to on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Music for books, ruined pianos, stone xylophones, and more.
A profile of the composer and ping pong player Chung Yiu-kwong.
Opera
Alice Goodman defends her libretto to “The Death of Klinghoffer.”
Addressing the political with the classical at the Lucerne Festival.
A haunting new “Meistersinger” at Bayreuth.
Orientalism and a plea for humanity in “The Land of Smiles.”
Is the prevalence of suicide in opera harmful or healing?
Andrés Andrade teaches opera to teenagers.
Kristine Opolais on acting and emptiness.
Soloists and conductors
Matthias Pintscher looks for moments of perfection.
An interview with the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
Listening to Czech music with the conductor Jakub Hrůša.
Behind the hype of Teodor Currentzis.
Where did classical music’s most famous label go wrong?
A playlist by Sung Jin Hong, artistic director of the One World Symphony.
Steven Osborne’s piano psychologies.
Strings
Alina Ibragimova wants it darker.
An interview with the cellist Steven Isserlis.
Why studies questioning the Stradivarius myth are so persuasive.
Where did classical music’s most famous label go wrong?
An interview with the new JACK Quartet cellist Jay Campbell.
What one octogenarian performer’s experience reveals about getting old in the music business.
The violinist Vilde Frang searches for clarity.
Personal essay
When a conservatory professor fell in love with his student, it tore a class apart.
Is the prevalence of suicide in opera harmful or healing?
The artistic director of a Jewish orchestra discovers a genre’s roots.
When the concert stage becomes a trigger for trauma, and what to do about it.
The solace of John Cage’s speaking and writing.
Music on the border to the Gaza Strip.
On the interaction between personal identity and artistic freedom.
Music the profession
Are large ensemble tours worth their environmental cost?
An interview with Brian Brandt, the founder of Mode Records, on the future of the music industry.
When a conservatory professor fell in love with his student, it tore a class apart.
What one octogenarian performer’s experience reveals about getting old in the music business.
When the concert stage becomes a trigger for trauma, and what to do about it.
Wolfgang Rihm teaches the Lucerne Festival’s Composer Seminar.
Where do piano tuners spend their days?
The voice
On politics and solace in Schubert’s “Winterreise.”
Rethinking the voice with contemporary music.
Saul Williams’s words to music.
A new choral work by Michael Gordon.
A new production of Robert Ashley’s “Dust.”
The extremes of the baritone Georg Nigl.
A profile of the artist and interviewer Helga Davis.
Literature and film
Teju Cole’s musical obsessions.
What music says about the history of colonialism in Brazil.
Oscar Edelstein’s curiosity and defiance.
Songs from a gay Australian childhood and youth.
Explorations of experimental music with Jennie Gottschalk.
Cult appeal and the universe with the composer Dylan Mattingly.
An interview with the composer Jüri Reinvere, on a musical life in the orbit of Ingmar Bergman and Käbi Laretei.
Queer
On the New York premiere of “Three Way.”
A call for clarity in calls for scores.
Musicians and listeners respond to our survey.
King Ludwig II’s Wagnerian castle and a lineage of obsession.
A new exhibition on the life of Richard Wagner’s decidedly gay, ambivalently Nazi son.
Alex Temple’s polystylistic exuberance.
Songs from a gay Australian childhood and youth.
Early music
Kristian Bezuidenhout wants to program music in its context.
The harpsichordist Richard Egarr’s music between worlds.
Paul Jacobs trusts his audience.
Andreas Staier responds to our interview with Mahan Esfahani.
Mahan Esfahani on piety and conservatism in early music.
Olivier Latry and Iveta Apkalna discuss the pleasures and perils of the organ.
Sigiswald Kuijken’s matters of principle.