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.
Tom Huizenga’s favorite albums, songs and concerts of 2024
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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.
December 9, 2024 by
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.
December 7, 2024 by
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.
December 5, 2024 by
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.
December 2, 2024 by
You can’t always know that it’s a great year for new music while it’s happening, but there was a sense from the very start of 2024 that we were in for a ride.
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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.
November 13, 2024 by
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.
November 6, 2024 by Justin Bowers
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.
November 6, 2024 by Justin Bowers
Riley’s pioneering piece, which premiered 60 years ago, leaves many decisions up to the performers. It helped launch the movement known as minimalism, but In C itself has also survived and changed.
November 6, 2024 by Justin Bowers
A nearly 200-year-old music manuscript by composer Frédéric Chopin was recently unearthed at a museum in New York.