Watch the archived webcast from The Greene Space of the Emerson String Quartet in its final New York performance in its current lineup.

The genre-bending string quartet Brooklyn Rider arrives at the WQXR Café to perform exuberant pieces inspired by the sounds of Eastern Europe, ancient Persia and beyond. Watch the videos.

The late Emanuele Luzzati was a painter, animator, Academy Award nominee and an Operavore. For today’s cartoon, we look at his 1973 Academy Award-nominated animated short film "Pulcinella."

In advance of Mother's Day (May 12), we'd like to know: what comes to mind for you when you mix classical music and Mom? Leave your comments.

Watch the archived webcast of the Imani Winds in concert and conversation as they join pianists Roy Eaton and Donal Fox, and bass-baritone Joe Damon Chappel in The Greene Space.

For this Saturday’s cartoon we feature Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Dance of the Clowns” from his opera The Snow Maiden.

WQXR is taking listeners to the world's biggest classical music festival this summer.

On Monday night, the violinist Gil Shaham and his sister, the pianist Orli Shaham, performed an evening of Jewish and Jewish-themed music.

For this Saturday’s cartoon we have selected Jean Sibelius’s Valse triste, Op. 44. 

On Wednesday, the pianist András Schiff joined host Jeff Spurgeon to discuss and perform the music of J.S. Bach. Watch the archived video.

For this week’s cartoon we feature the Entry of the Gods into Valhalla, from Wagner’s Das Rheingold, as featured in "Operavox Rhinegold,” a 1995 condensed, animated version of the opera from the BBC.

On Sunday evening at the Park & Bark Arts Center in Newark, NJ I heard a performance of what is, without question, the most unusual opera I’ve ever heard.

Two things are certain about the classical music calendar: Handel at Christmas and Bach at Easter. For the final day of Bach 360°, read more about the Easter-themed works.

What kinds of voices did Bach have in mind for his vocal works? Which voice type is most capable of communicating the composer's music: boy sopranos, countertenors or women?

Bach's St. John Passion is among the great monuments of the choral literature but it is also controversial for its setting of the St. John Passion. Find out why and leave a comment.

Beyond religion, beyond duty, beyond fashion lies J.S. Bach’s music for keyboard. Read David Patrick Stearns's take on the composer's epic keyboard works and get a free download.

No other composer has spurred as many reinterpretations as Bach, from jazz and bluegrass to rock. Author Paul Elie considers why. Plus: get a free Bach download.

In an age when crossover-slanted, heavily promoted violin babes are a staple of record industry marketing, Isabelle Faust’s career seems cut from a different cloth.

While it's doubtful Bach intended his music for dancing, he wrote his share of gigues, sarabandes and gavottes. Read our top five and get a free download.