His recordings of Beethoven and Chopin were hailed as classics, but his technical ability sometimes invited controversy.

The composer Matthew Sheeran, brother of the pop star Ed Sheeran, discusses how he translated microtonal electronic music for a chamber orchestra.

Wayne Brown, who recently retired, started his career in Detroit before returning there to run a transformed Detroit Opera.

Recording collections reveal the talents of an essential 20th-century musician who lived through mental illness, Nazism and other tribulations.

The pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, a friend and collaborator of Ligeti, is helping the New York Philharmonic observe the centennial of his birth.

A pillar of chamber music for nearly a half-century, the Emerson players bid farewell with Beethoven’s Opus 130 and Schubert’s String Quintet.

Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations, which Olafsson recorded for Deutsche Grammophon and is touring this season, is “like a life cycle.”

Understated and unarrogant, Ax can be taken for granted. But he has long been, and continues to be, one of the finest American pianists.

The orchestra is in a period of transition, but one thing that remains consistent is the enduring quality of its summer home.

This year’s Bard Music Festival explores the work and context of a composer who strove to make art “an expression of the whole life of…