Planning on a summer backyard barbecue? Why not grill those burgers and brats to the sounds of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms? Afternoon Host Kent Teeters has put together a fun classical music playlist ...

There are so many reference recordings of this repertoire. Janssen seems comparatively straight after Glenn Gould, but he’s much easier to live with in the long term. And while I love the exquisite ...

Will you have some wine with your Beethoven? The Seattle Symphony found such a hot reception for last year’s “Beethoven and Wine” series that it’s presenting three of the well-priced, short Beethoven ...

Food and drink trends affect us all, often crossing cultural, temporal, and geographic divides. Consider, for example, classical music composers Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 to 1750) and Ludwig van ...

This week the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival begins its 42nd installment, which will purvey about 100 compositions in the course of 38 performances in town before it reaches its conclusion on Aug. 25 ...

Any string quartet approaching its fourth decade would be expected to boast a wide repertoire, yet the enormous span of composers the Alexander String Quartet has embraced is almost beyond belief. It ...

Camerata Pacifica Founder/Artistic Director Adrian Spence, who established the acclaimed Santa Barbara-based international chamber music collective in 1990, has been named to Musical America’s ...

March brings the first days of spring and Irish celebrations, and naturally a lot of Colorado music to enjoy. Dig out the old calendar and take note of these upcoming concerts. Calling all Piazzolla ...

A happy birthday to Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the biggest giants of classical music, born Dec. 16, 1770. (He died March 26, 1827. An old joke: a fan opens Beethoven's grave in Vienna and sees him .