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Musicians both real-life and fictional played starring roles in several of this year’s nominated films.

Two of the recently revived composer’s late masterpieces flourish in a recording with soprano Janinah Burnett and bass-baritone Dashon Burton.

In a new series, the KDFC/KUSC resident artist continues to cover underrepresented composers and the history that makes American music so rich.

Classical insiders, like conductor JoAnn Falletta, have major issues with the film’s veracity, but they’re still fascinated.

In Variations on a Theme by FDR, composers from John Harbison to Vijay Iyer take inspiration from emblematic American stories.

The Takács Quartet’s first violinist tracks his own history and those of favorite composers in Distant Melodies: Music in Search of Home.

A DVD of the new ballet shows its onstage brilliance in addition to being a great score.

Cappella Romana discovers and performs music from a meeting in 1400 between the English king and the Byzantine emperor.

The Catalan composer has a champion in pianist Stephen Hough, who has just recorded a collection of Mompou’s miniatures.

Some of the soprano’s greatest roles are preserved in this two-CD set from the Metropolitan Opera.