Rachmaninov in the Rockies: Pianist Daniil Trifonov dreams of playing the composer's Fourth Piano Concerto on a train. Michael Joseph McQuilken/DG hide caption
Sergei Rachmaninov
Clockwise from upper left: Confidence Man, Young Fathers, Hookworms Courtesy of the artists hide caption
New Mix: Young Fathers, Confidence Man, A Stunning Tiny Desk Contest Entry, More
Soprano Barbara Hannigan shines in let me tell you by Hans Abrahamsen. Elmer de Haas hide caption
Alessio Bax with his daughter at the Tiny Desk. Brandon Chew/NPR hide caption
After his First Symphony flopped, Sergei Rachmaninoff briefly switched careers. A London critic wrote, "It was such a spectacle as has rarely been seen anywhere in the Empire." Photo illustration by Jeff Curnow/Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress hide caption
Serge Rachmaninoff, photographed in 1919, somewhere outside of San Francisco. Wikimedia Commons hide caption
Conductor Andris Nelsons led the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus Thursday in Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky at Carnegie Hall in New York. AJ Wilhelm for NPR hide caption
A Tale Of Two Sergeys: Boston Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall
Cameron Carpenter's new album, If You Could Read My Mind, comes out Aug. 26. Thomas Grube/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
If You Could Read My Mind
Classical albums we loved this year. NPR/Denise DeBelius hide caption
Yuja Wang at NPR's studio in Washington, D.C. Denise DeBelius/NPR hide caption
Leonard Slatkin leads the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at the Spring for Music festival at Carnegie Hall. Torsten Kjellstrand/for NPR hide caption
Spring For Music: Detroit Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall
American pianist Earl Wild performs at his 90th-birthday recital at Carnegie Hall. courtesy of the artist hide caption