There is a considerable wealth of classical music and opera in Wales. The popular perception of a tradition of the harp and the male voice choir is a long way from the 21st century reality of a ...

Finnish composer Jean Sibelius objected to programmatic content in other composers’ symphonies and declared that HIS music is about nothing but itself. Hear how he applies that to his Symphony No.

A group of young musicians in New York City have gotten together to form the Riwaya Ensemble featuring classical music by ...

British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage says that his musical compositions do not get “played much” on classical music radio stations. The 64-year-old, who has created music for ballets and operas, ...

Mozart and Chopin wrote their music hundreds of years ago. In recent months, their music was still being discovered in archives, and we can now hear what it sounds like.

Unearthing long-buried pieces of history have fuelled the plot of many summer-read novels. But how many of these discoveries happen in real life? In 2024, two library archives announced the ...

Stop making classical music political,” a listener recently commented. “We listen to music to get away from politics.” ...

A young musician has passed a university music composition exam aged 11, the youngest to ever have achieved the certificate.

It’s in this latter role that Iyer and his frequent performing partner, the Grammy Award-winning violinist Jennifer Koh will ...

Discover the profound legacy of C. Ramchandra, the iconic Bollywood composer whose music transcended boundaries and stirred ...

Prolific freeborn Creole composer Edmond Dédé’s career took him from New Orleans to Paris, but his masterwork has remained ...