Album · 2025 · 19 Songs

On WCRB In Concert with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Rachel Barton Pine presents a recital on violin and viola d’amore, including the Gardner Museum's extraordinary 1770s viola d'amore.

…a collection of works on the theme of Pentecost.

Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev stressed that Ukraine will need to embrace a neutral, non-nuclear status, reject its nationalist policy course and recognize the four new Russi...

Album · 1995 · 31 Songs

Album · 2012 · 28 Songs

Early Music Now | Classical music inspires and restores the human spirit. KMFA handcrafts exceptional classical music experiences on-air, online, and in community.

A favorite of Chicago audiences, the bass-baritone makes a triumphant homecoming in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni at Lyric Opera.

Album · 2025 · 38 Songs

Album · 2025 · 18 Songs

At the New York Review of Books, I talk with the novelist Karan Mahajan about literature and politics. Karan’s got a wonderful new novel, The Complex, which I highly recommend. It’s about a right-wing...

Over the last 24 hours, it’s become clear that the “statement” Jane Doe gave to the Cornell University police, which was then delivered to the Tompkins County District Attorney, was not anywhere close...

…whether inspired by hymn tunes or mere caprice, American composers approach the pipe organ in refreshingly diverse ways.

Album · 2000 · 14 Songs

Completely packed with a young-trending audience, Symphony Hall erupted into an unbridled lovefest including hoots and screams for piano-soloist Seong-Jin Cho, and long upright cheers for Andris Nelso...

Album · 2012 · 23 Songs

Album · 2016 · 23 Songs

An appreciation of French organist, composer, pedagogue and organ builder Jean Guillou, titular organist at L’Église St. Eustache in Paris for 52 years.

The BSO performs Elena Firsova’s and Sofia Gubaidulina’s "Prolog," a BSO co-commission, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 7—the only Mahler symphony Andris Nelsons has yet to conduct with the BSO.

Now that neoliberal policies are failing to deliver prosperity, their backers are falling back on fear-mongering.

Those who braved the raging nor’easter for the first of this year’s Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts concerts were amply rewarded, as the fully collaborative concert by the accomplished 13-year ...

…a diverting collection of music in a form which Italians invented but composers in Germany perfected.

Album · 2026 · 30 Songs

Album · 1992 · 16 Songs

Debunking some widely-held, elite-serving beliefs about the function of the Federal bond market.

De-dollarization is simply not happening. Foreign investors are active dollar buyers. .

In all the conversation about Nikole Hannah-Jones’s essay, few people have focused on what I think is the real lunacy at the heart of that story. Though Hannah-Jones mentions it in her piece, it comes...

For the inaugural Scott Nickrenz concert, four exemplary string players (YooJin Jang and Geneva Lewis, violins, Emma Wernig, viola, and Jay Campbell, cello) and pianist Conrad Tao offered intense sele...

Sanders Theater crackled with the warmth of a Roma campfire on Sunday afternoon.

Album · 1988 · 15 Songs

Album · 2008 · 16 Songs

This week’s show was inspired by a listener who suggested we dedicate some time to Andrés Segovia. He wrote, “Of all musicians I have known, no one dominated the field as he did. Almost single-handedl...

In 1900 all of America was crazy for pianos, and no place did more to fuel the madness than Boston. Any resident with enough curiosity and stamina could examine the wares of 40 different makers withou...

. . . as the seasons inevitably change, so does the music.

Michael Hudson outlines a sound path for the Global Majority to manage the coming oil war-created crisis. But you can't get there from here

Album · 2017 · 15 Songs

Album · 2023 · 20 Songs

We’re continuing our series on music in and about the Americas during the first centuries of European colonization with a focus on Northern New Spain. Join us as we explore the musical legacies of Spa...

On WCRB In Concert with the Museum of Fine Arts, the Parker Quartet plays string quartets by Debussy and Ravel with a historic violin.

Album · 2022 · 18 Songs

Michael Hudson on why economic rent, the concept classical economists spent a century arguing over, disappeared from the textbooks, and what recovering it would mean for tax policy now.

Who absorbs the losses when a property boom ends? Michael Hudson examines China’s housing dilemma and the global cost of putting creditors first.

A playlist of favorite vocal waltzes and operetta arias and ensembles.

Album · 2020 · 28 Songs

Joan Benson has had a formidable career as a recording artist, teacher, pedagogue, and published author. Now, at 93, her prolific performing career is once again visible to the masses through this col...

…another exploration of some of the interesting and sometimes curious old instruments in the Windy City, with performances recorded there during a convention of the Organ Historical Society.