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- The Orchestra Japan, Disney on Classic Vocalists & Hiroyuki Tsuji
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- Jonathan Biss, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & David Afkham
- Los Angeles Philharmonic, John Adams & Los Angeles Master Chorale
- Jakub Józef Orliński, Elsa Dreisig, Fatma Said, Stefan Plewniak & Il Giardino d'Amore
- Jeff Beal
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- Fenella Humphreys
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- Martyna Pastuszka, Luka Faulisi & {oh!} Orkiestra
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- The Orchestra Japan, Disney on Classic Vocalists & Hiroyuki Tsuji
- Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Christian Thielemann
- Clemens Christian Poetzsch & Reentko Dirks
- Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert Blomstedt & Leonidas Kavakos
- Ryan Speedo Green, Eric Owens, Latonia Moore, Stephanie Blythe, Eric Greene, Paul Groves, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & The Metropolitan Opera Chorus
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About
Forget about classical music as a genre—think of it as an idea. The idea starts in a composer’s mind, is transferred to a written score, and is faithfully interpreted by performers. This chain—composer, score, performer—reaches back to the ancient Greeks and Romans and continues to define classical music today. For a casual listener, it might evoke iconic images—a pianist hunched over a Steinway, a chorus and orchestra’s euphoric rendering of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” a soprano in a Viking helmet singing Wagner’s Brünnhilde—but those images only represent only a few tiles in the ever-expanding mosaic of classical music. To make sense of the wildly diverse terrain, classical music is often organized into major historical periods. There are three fairly concrete ones—the Baroque Era (approximately 1600-1750), the Classical Era (approximately 1750-1820), and the Romantic Era (approximately 1820-1910). These are bookended by enigmatic periods on either side: so-called Early Music (which includes music from Western Europe before the 17th century) and music from the 20th century and beyond, which can be referred to by any number of terms, like Contemporary Classical or New Music. But one of the great joys in exploring classical music is tracing its creative currents through the centuries—a lineage carried forward through the ages by revolutionaries like the prolific and pious Johann Sebastian Bach, the tempestuous fire of Ludwig van Beethoven, and the playful genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. While today’s composers continue to redefine the definitions of classical music, its traditions are courageously safeguarded (and challenged) by the interpretations of great conductors like Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, and Pierre Boulez, and timeless recordings of performances by the likes of Yo-Yo Ma, Jascha Heifetz, Luciano Pavarotti, and Glenn Gould.