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New music without Bang on a Can would be a lot less visible, a lot grayer, and a lot less fun. Here’s the story of their breakthrough ideas.

Allan Kozinn listens to the latest music from the busy creative community in Iceland.

The soprano offers a rare bouquet, delivered with splendid technique and expressiveness.

A quartet of recent recordings full of startling, genre-crossing compositions shows what the classical world had been missing.

The millennial generation of musicians make compelling music without the defined notions of style that their elders once thought a prerequisite.

In recent recordings, the S.F. Symphony gives us a bevy of Bates, Philharmonia Baroque resuscitates a serenata, and American Bach Soloists air a rarely-performed version of Handel’s Messiah.

Great music and gift ideas for classical music lovers (and how to get hold of them quickly).

Four new mind-boggling, jaw-dropping, ear-seducing recordings by Cecilia Bartoli, Dominque Labelle, Alice Coote, and Nathalie Stutzman give pleasure almost beyond words.

On Sept. 23 a newly remastered 69-CD box set of Maria Callas’ entire studio discography became available from Warner Classics.

The wondrous mezzo Joyce DiDonato, now at the very top of her game, sings bel canto arias to a fare-thee-well, both the rare and the familiar, the tragic and the camp.