Columbus native and world-famous lutenist Paul O'Dette will be featured on this week's episode of Fretworks. English guitarist Nicola Hall will begin the next Fretworks program on Classical 101 with a ...

From contrabassoons to harmonicas, we take a look at some of the concertos for more unusual instruments to have found their way into the concert hall over the centuries ...

Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos wrote his only guitar concerto in 1951 for Andres Segovia, the most famous classical guitarist in the world, originally calling it "Fantasia Concertante." ...

The passion of Flamenco blends with the elegance of courtly dances in the most popular guitar concerto of all time: Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. The work was composed in Paris in 1939 during a ...

From classical guitar star Andrew Blanch: music spanning centuries and continents, from the Italian Baroque to Romantic-era ...

Iván Duran Aguayo is likely the first artist to record Ernest Shand's Op. 48 with a backing string quartet, according to his research. With more music than anyone could listen to in a lifetime ...

If you’ve spent any time around classical music, you might have heard the word ‘concerto’. It is a testimony to the enduring relevance of the concerto that for over four centuries, the genre has ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Hans Otte’s “Book of Sounds,” Jan Lisiecki’s fresh take on Mozart piano concertos and the works of an overlooked composer are among our selections.