Multi-CD surveys devoted to Herbert von Karajan, Pierre Boulez and Steve Reich are among the year’s finest classical-music offerings.

The line forms at twilight outside of an empty San Francisco warehouse. Tickets are scanned as guests walk through a dimly lit passageway leading to a bar. But the 500 or so people are not waiting for ...

When you think of Indian classical music, you probably don't expect to hear beat box, or strains of jazz, and even rock. But that's exactly what Nistha Raj is all about. The violinist is mixing ...

With the traditional music industry in shambles, the larger labels are repackaging their deep catalogs as never before, releasing well-conceived box sets that are modestly priced for the amount of ...

What in the world is SoundBox? That very question was on the minds of the fans who lined up Saturday night, along Franklin Street, for a first glimpse of San Francisco Symphony’s new performance space ...

Some recommended classical boxed sets for gift-givers and receivers this holiday season: “The Leonard Bernstein Collection: Volume One” (Deutsche Grammophon, 60 CDs and DVD, $241.64): Perhaps no ...

There’s something wonderful about classical music—certainly in its form as recorded music—having become a commodity: It is more easily available than ever before, in greater variety than ever before, ...

In major U.S cities, symphony orchestras face financial problems. But there are bright notes in dark times. For example, the Metropolitan Opera has begun live broadcasts of its operas in movie ...

The preamble to this review—a cursory glance at the state of the state of box sets in classical music—precedes the first of these three reviews, namely the orchestral works conducted by Ferenc Fricsay ...