The new book Bach: The Cello Suites by Edward Klorman features exhaustive research into the six Bach Cello Suites and is available as a new Cambridge Music Handbook through Cambridge University Press. This handbook is not to be underestimated, despite

Every Wagner production falls into two categories: “traditional” and “modern.” The latter, in turn, can be divided into two further kinds: controversial and extremely controversial—sometimes, controversy itself seems to be the point. Since the 1976 Jahrhundertring, conducted by Pierre Boulez

The 2026 edition of the Z+ Festival—now in its third year as part of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra’s 25/26 season—continued its chamber music projects. Led by pianist Zee Zee, this seven-concert series brought together a mix of international soloists, leading

Henk de Vlieger’s arrangement of the entirety of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, as The Ring: An Orchestral Adventure, isn’t the first reduction of the multi-hour extravaganza into an orchestral form, but it is one of the nicest. Written in 1991, it

Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Castor et Pollux, generally regarded as one of his finest works, is staged with some frequency. For a fully staged opera production in 2026, however, you would have to visit two mid-scale European opera houses, the Grand Théâtre

The story has it that the Goldberg Variations were written for the harpsichordist Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727–1756), who entertained the long white nights of Count Hermann Karl von Keyserling (1697–1764), the Russian ambassador to Saxony. Bach was well paid for

Browse streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube, as well as broadcasters like the BBC, and you will find curated playlists of music for relaxation, calm, winding down, nighttime, and sleep. That Max Richter’s Sleep – his landmark

‘With this recording, I brought to life a deeply cherished, lifelong vision: to delve into the essence and to record Frédéric Chopin’s complete cycle of 27 études – Op. 10, Op. 25, and the three études without opus numbers –