Tom Huizenga

With orchestras clamoring for her work, the rising artist feels a responsibility and opportunity to help reframe classical music and the institutions that present it.

Gentle music from the bucolic English countryside pervades this tranquil Tiny Desk (home) concert by Roger Eno, with a special appearance by his two daughters.

Classical guitarists can rock out, too. Hear a searing, joyful performance of Bach at its most shred-worthy and satisfying.

Hear the award-winning pianist offer two sides of Mozart's genius from inside the composer's own home in Vienna.

A surprising collaboration between Iggy Pop and harpist Lavinia Meijer touches on the love, loss and regret between children and parents.

From a series of texts and downloads, a meditative, electroacoustic oasis of calm emerges.

The ebullient nonagenarian's new recording features music she's been playing for nearly a century.

The late Icelandic composer's magnum opus unfolds like a ritual, combining a potent mix of tradition and technology.

Watch violinist Daniel Hope play Beethoven from the composer's own birth house in Bonn, Germany.

A fearless risk-taker who makes warhorses sound freshly minted, Kopatchinskaja, from her Vienna apartment, sets fire to Beethoven and offers rarely heard American music.

On her new album, the opera star suggests Mother Nature has a lot to teach us, if we'd only listen.

Violin and cello are sparkling stand-ins for the Andean charango in an evocative serenade by Gabriela Lena Frank.

Hear the French harpsichordist's monument to silence in a luminous and expansive performance from Bach's Goldberg Variations.

Opera and cabaret comingle when two odd bedfellows bring music by Philip Glass, The Bangles, Peter Gabriel and Christoph Willibald Gluck to a "tiny apartment" in Manhattan.

Hear a sparkling new chamber piece that, by design, explores the idea of being together.

Hear an ode to the air we breathe from the innovative electro-acoustic composer, with an assist from a children's choir.

George Walker's final Piano Sonata might be short in length, but it's long on ideas, unfolding in a colorful thicket of textures and episodes.

Acclaimed for her fearless performances in operas by Strauss and Bizet, Ewing also partly inspired Passing, a film written and directed by her daughter, Rebecca Hall.

Hear the violinist, celebrated for her beautiful tone, in a surprise gift from a departed composer.

From NPR's annual list of reading recommendations, Books We Love, we hear four suggestions of history books from 2021.