classical music

Opera’s obsession with finding a new star tenor can end up ruining a singer’s career

Paul Wells experiences the madness of Warsaw’s Frédéric Chopin International Piano Competition

A new recording of The Magic Flute takes a lot of liberties with the original score

“I wish this stuff would be easier”

I love classical recording, not just as a way of preserving pieces or performers, but as an art form and a business. (Before...

In times of crisis, don’t expect to see opera companies staging risky, lesser-known works

Decca is calling their new 11-CD collection "Puccini: The Definitive Collection," but really it’s a tribute to the label’s...

I haven’t seen this in Canadian stores yet, but EMI Classics has reissued their three-disc set of Otto Klemperer conducting Haydn...

Here’s a rave review of R. Murray Schafer’s string quartets by a blogging Florida composer and educator . I post it here because...