Having joined the BSO in 2024, Lorna McGhee talks with WCRB's Brian McCreath about her roots in a coastal town in Scotland, the experience of auditioning for the BSO, and what she finds magnetic about playing in Boston and at Tanglewood.

Pianist Alice Sara Ott's recording "John Field: Complete Nocturnes" dazzles, uplifts, and soothes. That's exactly what this music did for her.

With his 2025 album "Song of the Birds," Avi Avital explores new worlds through the crossover between classical and folk music, with the help of his hand-picked group, Between Worlds.

From ethereal centuries-old motets to electrifying works recently composed for percussion and prepared piano, hear some of CRB's favorite classical albums of 2025!

On The Bach Hour, Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson brings a spirit of collaborative creation to the composer's Aria and Variations in the Italian Manner, and Christoph Spering leads the Cantata No. 14.

To celebrate one of America’s greatest and most expansive composers, Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in an all-John Williams program, with pianist Emanuel Ax performing the Boston premiere of Williams’s Piano Concerto, and violinist Gil Shaham performing in TreeSong and the Theme from “Schindler’s List.

On WCRB In Concert with the Boston Early Music Festival, the ensembles ACRONYM and Constantinople showcase the music of J.S. Bach, Omar Khayyam, and the Holy Roman Empire.

Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves is retiring from the stage after a last performance as Maria in the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera, and looking ahead to directing and mentoring.

A northern English town loses its best choral singers to fighting in World War I but finds new hope in a time of loss through music in Nicholas Hytner's new film "The Choral," featuring Ralph Fiennes.