The Paris Conservatoire was founded in 1795 after the French Revolution. Since then, many of classical music’s greatest figures have passed through its doors. Initially, women weren’t allowed to benefit from the Conservatoire’s rigorous education. In fact, women weren’t admitted

In our last episode on forgotten Romantic piano concertos, we discovered unexpected and wonderful music by Balakirev, Rubinstein, Arensky, Glazunov, and Medtner. These much-neglected nineteenth- and early twentieth-century piano concertos and concertante works have been brought to light in 87

“Clair de Lune” is one of the most popular pieces in all of classical music, and there are countless versions on YouTube alone. But which ones have actually captured the most listeners there? And which one is the most watched

In the early nineteenth century, many girls and women were discouraged from playing the violin. A few talented female violinists attempted to shatter that glass ceiling, and many put cracks in it. But it took a Czech violin prodigy named

Today we’re looking at one of the most interesting and adaptable instruments in the brass family: the flugelhorn. Flugelhorns have appeared in diverse settings for generations, from Stravinsky and Vaughan Williams to classic 1970s pop records. Its warm and mellow

American pianist, writer, and teacher Jonathan Biss comes from a family of professional musicians, including his grandmother Raya Garbousova, for whom Samuel Barber composed his Cello Concerto, and his parents, violinist Miriam Fried and violist/violinist Paul Biss. He studied with

Chen Gang, the Shanghai-born composer whose name is inseparable from the Butterfly Lovers violin concerto, died in Shanghai in the early hours of 18 July 2026. He was 91. The announcement was made by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where

One of the most fascinating and versatile musicians of the first half of the twentieth century, George Enescu composed only one opera. Oedipe would occupy the composer intermittently for more than twenty years, and it eventually premiered at the Paris