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The 18th-century French composer François Couperin lavished as much colour and character on his work as any artist of his era, says Kate Bolton-Porciatti

Big Beat MKE, Ben Mulwana, Free Admission to Milwaukee Art Museum, MKE Film Festival continues, International Jazz Day Celebration and more—This Week in Milwaukee!

An Ungrateful Instrument review: Michael Meehan has written about the dark secrets of a musical family

“My first album for Deutsche Grammophon stems from a desire to share my love for Baroque music,” says rising-star French guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre. Visages

Baroque concert  SOUTHWEST HARBOR — Tim Burris, baroque lutist and guitarist, will perform a concert titled “Presence of the Past” at 2 p.m. Saturday,

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. The clarinetist and pianist’s program includes Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina which premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1981. Widor’s Introduction et rondo was composed in 1898. At its première in 1935, Bax’s clarinet sonata was actually played twice; it was repeated in the program when the sheet music for a work by Lennox Berkeley was lost in the post. Each of the four Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski highlights a characteristic...

The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 Listen to our critics’ favorites from a year in which much of the energy in music came from recordings. Credit...The New York Times Dec. 17, 2020 “In Seven Days”; Kirill Gerstein, piano (Myrios) The composer Thomas Adès and the pianist Kirill Gerstein’s artistically fruitful friendship has given us two essential albums this year: the premiere recording of Mr. Adès’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, featuring Mr. Gerstein and the Boston Sym...