Beginning with Sondra Radvanovsky at the Lyric and including Steppenwolf’s Caroline Neff as well as Ryan Hake as the lead of ...

We spoke to an international cohort of curators about the key works of art that defined 2025, and why they made an impact.

Multi-CD surveys devoted to Herbert von Karajan, Pierre Boulez and Steve Reich are among the year’s finest classical-music ...

My goal was to take the Messiah as if it had been written yesterday,” the conductor and eminent French harpsichordist Christophe Rousset told Tom Service on Radio 3 on Saturday. “[It would be] as if ...

Discover a broad range of this year's most compelling classical recordings, including symphonic booty-shakers, mystic violin, pipe organ prog and a guided tour of 18th century German chart-toppers.

To make a list is immediately to begin second-guessing it. This year that’s especially true below the Top 10, in my list of 20 runner-up albums, for which I had double that many candidates I could ...

Thinking outside the canon, and finding the gritty and the beautiful, within it. By Joshua Barone and Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim JOSHUA BARONE Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical ...

It was bound to happen eventually, though 2025 seems like an odd time for this particular inevitability: the Golden Globes have assembled a group of six nominees in the category of Best Motion Picture ...

The best indie, underground, and alternative music videos of 2025. It’s that time of the year where I regurgitate all the music videos I’ve consumed over the last 12 months into your eyes and ears ...

A few weeks ago, we launched the Pitchfork 2025 Readers’ Poll. Thousands of readers voted on the best songs and albums of the half-decade, and here are the results. (Thanks for voting!) Compare your ...

Holiday season is here—the time of year when the release schedule dries up and is replaced by tides of giftable band merch. What, you ask, does the devoted music fan in my life desire, and why is it a ...

As 2025 comes to a close, one of the most significant stories in music, which will surely grow in importance in the coming years, is who—or what—will be singing the songs of the future. Recently a ...