Using some 40 different types of instruments, the Berlin-based quartet is just as likely to play the Renaissance canon as it is to tackle outrageously theatrical new works by today's composers.

Temperatures are projected to be in the 70s this weekend in New York, so for this week's Saturday morning cartoon, we present Amilcare Ponchielli’s "Dance of the Hours" from his opera La Gioconda.

Today at 12 noon, join us for a special one-hour program about classical music's connection to the Titanic -- 100 years to the day after the infamous maritime disaster.

For this week's picks, Yuja Wang does Prokofiev with the Philharmonic, an operatic rarity by Mozart gets a staging and Jonathan Biss plays a wallet-friendly recital at Town Hall.

French pianist Alexandre Tharaud has a particular fascination with the music that emerged from Le Boeuf Sur le Toit cabaret in the 1920s. Watch him play "Le Jazz" in the WQXR Café.

For this week’s Saturday morning cartoon, we have chosen Charles Gounod’s Funeral March of a Marionette.

On Wednesday night, The Knights performed a piece by John Adams that featured "crowdsourced" sound from a WQXR listener. Here's how it went down.

A New York recital debut, medieval music in the Cloisters and a multimedia take on a 20th-century landmark opera are among our picks for concerts to hear this weekend.

Get your buckets out. This week’s Saturday cartoon is Paul Dukas’s symphonic poem The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

It's high season for choral music in New York. Our picks of things to do this weekend include two major European choirs, and a multi-generational chamber group.

For this Saturday’s cartoon we have selected the aria "O mio babbino caro" from Giacomo Puccini’s opera, Gianni Schicchi. 

The percussion quartet So Percussion performs Inlets, John Cage's Zenlike score for water-filled conch shells and burning pine cones, in the WQXR Café. Watch the video here.

Wednesday was a big day for Bach enthusiast Dale Henderson, it being J.S. Bach's 327th birthday as well as the second “Bach in the Subways Day." Watch a slideshow of the event as it played out.

The NCAA Tournament is in full-swing and -- just like in the world of college basketball -- the sound of marches is in the air. We bracket out 16 of the best marches.

The St. John Passion is one of Bach's two great surviving Passions, or sacred oratorios, the other being the St. Matthew Passion. Host Kent Tritle gives us five tips on getting to know this masterpiece.

Spring is just around the corner, or at least it felt that way this past week in New York, so it seemed natural to celebrate the changing of the seasons with Mendelssohn’s Fruhlingslied (Spring Song).

Today at 4:30 pm, hear host Midge Woolsey's interview with baritone Thomas Hampson. He talks about his company role debut as Verdi's Macbeth at the Metropolitan Opera.

Ryu Goto opened his Café Concert with Kreisler's Liebesleid, a bittersweet waltz that evokes a kind of aristocratic grace from another era. But Goto is hardly a violinist stuck in the past.

Representing one of the many micro-niche musical genres at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX, is the hybrid known as indie classical. WQXR's Kim Nowacki looks at this year's event.