Host Simone Dinnerstein features piano students from the Mannes School of Music performing pieces by Beethoven, Liszt, Alkan, ...

French composer Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) is our featured composer today for WHM. Her Piano Trio No. 1 (from 1881) is today’s Midday Masterpiece.

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April 8, 2025 • Our third installment of calming songs includes Max Richter's tribute to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ambient sounds from Ryuichi Sakamoto, Brazilian jazz from ...

An absolute giant. Beethoven’s vast contributions to the development of Western Classical music, and to the symphonic genre, are simply incalculable. His final, ninth symphony is one of the most ...

Two world premieres at Dutch National Opera speak to what have traditionally been two separate audiences: the audience within the opera house and the one without.