Classical Newsletter

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.

For more than 40 years, the annual Twelfth Night concert of The Early Interval, Columbus’ resident early music ensemble, has reminded us that Christmas is just the beginning of the traditional season of holiday merriment.

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.

The Grammy winner and former Late Show bandleader unravels the crisscrossing threads of musical lineage from Beethoven's own personal blues to the musical art form that undergirds Batiste's Louisiana roots.

Thereminist Caroline Scruggs performs a classic song on the electronic instrument she calls her “second voice" in the WOSU Performance Studio. Scruggs also shares some thoughts about the theremin's history and what she describes as the instrument's “deep humanity.”

Composer Laura Kaminsky's intimate new opera, Lucidity, centers on an aging opera singer, portrayed by the 80-year-old soprano Lucy Shelton, dealing with the effects of memory loss.

The youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition makes our trusty upright piano sound like a 9-foot grand in music by Liszt and Tchaikovsky.

Long a fixture of sci-fi film soundtracks, the theremin will sail through central Ohio this weekend when the Central Ohio Symphony and thereminist Caroline Scruggs perform the world premiere of the Concerto for Theremin and Chamber Orchestra by Linda Kernohan.

Grammy-winning classical guitarist Jason Vieaux is a musician of consummate artistry and the kind of guy with whom you can sit down and have a nice chat. Recently Vieaux played some Bach for us in WOSU’s Performance Studio and to share his remarkable story about how his very first guitar led him to his world-class career.

NPR's A Martínez speaks with Dutch brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen about their new EP, Rêve, featuring piano duets by lesser-known composers influenced by — or rejecting — French Impressionism.