In the mid 1800s Russian composer Mily Balakirev gathered around him four young composers with limited musical education - Alexander Borodin, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; ...

September is Classical Music Month and today is our first “Thematic Thursday” when each week we’ll feature great composers programmed around a theme. Today is “Famous Fifths.” Throughout the day ...

Works by Philip Glass and Bohuslav Martinu, as well as performances by Daniil Trifonov and Jonas Kaufmann, are among the ...

For this week’s GBH’s All Things Considered Turntable series, Brian McCreath, director of production at GBH Music and host of ...