This dual-identity influenced his music. Drawn not to opera, which was all the rage in France, but to pure instrumental music of interest in the German countries, this is where he found most of ...

Perhaps because he was nearing 60, as was its dedicatee and soloist at the premiere, the music (and the playing, notably in at least one review) was seen as in an aging style and the concerto fell ...

Centuries before recorded music, sheet music and streaming services, there were "little squiggles" on pieces of parchment to guide a singer or choir. Known as medieval neumes, the squiggles ...

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Read previews and reviews of the biggest classical music events in Hong Kong, interviews with big players and tastemakers, profiles and news.

Audiences chose to start their year with Radio 3’s unrivalled classical music offer as the station saw 2.15m listeners tune in – the highest reach for the period in more than a decade and ...

Subtler forces are at work, too. Classical music has moved further from the mainstream, so finding an audience that knows the lighter repertoire that the Pops made its own has become impossible on ...

This week sees new recordings of Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, Ravel's songs, Brahms's Symphony No 3, 'Ukraine - A Piano Portrait', and Maurice Greene's Jephtha If you are a library, university or ...

From Claude Debussy to Leonard Bernstein, we celebrate some of the very best music written after 1900, through the lens of ten landmark works. The 20th century ushered in a period of drastic ...

The distinctive chirps of singing cicadas are a highlight of summer in regions where they proliferate; those chirps even featured prominently on Lorde's 2021 album Solar Power. Now, Japanese ...

Perfection is an over-rated virtue in classical music. It means no risks were taken, no passions revealed. All you can do is admire the dazzling virtuosity and the music’s perfectly licked surface.