Among record collectors there are desert-island discs –the handful of discs you’d take to said isolated island. Now, Mikhail ...

Highlights among the year’s novels and short-story collections, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

A pair of organ works that scholars believe were written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were premiered in Leipzig this ...

The absolute best performances in Hollywood movies include turns from Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire and Omar ...

Alan Walker, the esteemed biographer of Liszt and Chopin, explains his singular approach to history. He reveals why he remains an ‘analogue person‘ in a digital world, and argues that the best path to ...

There is a particular lyricism – a sense of landscape, weather, and inner weather – that runs through the great British orchestral tradition. It is music shaped by sea mist and cathedral stone, by ...

How a Chopin piano competition helped me find joy in a dark world - FIRST PERSON: It’s called the Olympic Games of the piano – the Chopin Competition, which takes place every five years in Warsaw.

Andrew Durbin A surprising aspect of this list is that there are no post-COVID-19 works. It feels like we’ve been living in this nostalgia-driven era for some time, and the usual forward momentum of ...