Their music became increasingly genre-defying until around the turn of the century, when classical music was set for one of its biggest changes to date. 20th Century and beyond (1900s onwards) Around ...

Classical music is a very broad term that includes a wealth of compositions written over the past 1,000 years ... Before Beethoven symphonies were much shorter, much quieter and generally a less ...

After leading an intense “Idomeneo” in Salzburg — the latest in his slew of recent coups at that festival — Teodor Currentzis did it again. ... and shaking up classical music, in Europe.

Here, I don't simply mean intense music. Instead, I am referring to that abstract quality that two centuries ago we might have called sublime, or transcendental, or any one of a variety of ...

Haydn: Classical Music's Cheerful Servant Though he came from a modest background, ... cheerful, but still emotionally intense style — that we generally refer to today as the "classical" style.

5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now. ... At a surface level, the sequencing of this album’s five works alternates between intense ragers and more intimate meditations, ...