May 13, 2019. Himmelsmusik, German for “heavenly music," is the latest project of Austrian theorbo player Christina Pluhar and her early-music ensemble…

Known especially for his New World Symphony and Slavonic Dances, Czech composer Antonín Dvorák wrote a song about motherhood for piano and voice that has become a standard for opera singers around the world.

A recent recording of an opera that premiered in 1937 shines a light on a Polish composer. He survived the Holocaust, but emerged from hiding only to shun…

April 29, 2019. Internationally renowned pianist Lang Lang joins his virtuosic playing with his passion for music education in a new recording, Piano…

When trombonist and Philly native Ernest Stuart created the Center City Jazz Festival back in 2012, he did so out of what he felt was necessity. “The…

Although Handel’s Messiah is now regularly performed during the Christmas holidays, the work was actually premiered in the spring before Easter. WRTI’s…

A transformative experience on tour led a young violinist to embrace a career in classical music and start a classical music podcast. WRTI's Susan Lewis…

March 25, 2019. It was about 15 years ago when eight members of a British youth choir branched out to form their own ensemble, after winning a vocal…

Cellist Dale Henderson began performing Bach’s Cello Suites in the subways of New York City in 2010, determined to spread the wonders of Bach. Today,…

Praised by the L.A. Times for her “fluid and glistening orchestration,” Andrea Clearfield has written more than 150 works that have been performed widely…