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Isata Kanneh-Mason: Tiny Desk Concert
The rising star of the British Kanneh-Mason family offers vigorous Chopin, serene Liszt and a stirring spiritual at the trusty Tiny Desk upright piano.

Tom Huizenga's favorite albums, songs and concerts of 2024
NPR Music's classical expert is an omnivorous listener, who treated the music of 2024 as sustenance for a year of zigzagging emotional highs and lows.

The 10 Best Classical Albums of 2024
Discover a wide range of this year's most compelling classical music, from symphonic thrill rides and soaring voices to delicate baroque suites, ambient adventures and one groove-laden masterwork.


Notre Dame organist returns for the cathedral's grand reopening
Olivier Latry is Notre Dame Cathedral's longest-serving organist. Just days before the church's gala reopening, after the destructive fire in 2019, he talks about the refurbished instrument — it holds 8,000 pipes — and its role in the church.

Boston Musical Events

JAN 10 Clarinet Quintet Masterpieces in Need»
JAN 19 Daniel: A Medieval Masterpiece in Bos»
JAN 19 Clarinet Quintet Masterpieces in Need»
JAN 25 Nicholas Southwick: Center Stage in E»
JAN 26 Dancing Through the Stars in Chestnut»
JAN 26 Musical Super Heroes in Newton on Sun»
JAN 26 The New World in Various on Sunday, J»
FEB 1 The Armed Archangel: in Cambridge on »
FEB 9 Piano Trio Delights in Needham on Sun»
FEB 16 Benjamin Zander, conductor in Boston »
FEB 22 Between Two Worlds in Boston (FC) on »
FEB 23 Between Two Worlds in Boston (FC) on »
MAR 1 A More Subtle Art: in Cambridge on Sa»
MAR 2 Family Concert in Boston on Sunday, M»
MAR 2 Family Concert in Boston on Sunday, M»
MAR 2 Between Words and Worlds in Bosoton o»
MAR 2 Between Words and Worlds in Bosoton o»
MAR 2 We Carry Our Homes Within Us in Cambr»
MAR 2 We Carry Our Homes Within Us in Cambr»