The acclaimed Swedish-American conductor performed the final concert in his seven-decade career earlier this year, at the age ...

Beethoven’s music is all the more amazing because he wrote so much of it when he was almost or totally deaf. At the end of the premiere of the Ninth Symphony, the composer had to be turned around to ...

For Behemoth!, which stars Pedro Pascal as a virtuoso cellist, writer-director Tony Gilroy cast nine of them - and they’re a ...

Composed in 1887, Fauré's graceful Pavane was originally a piano piece, based on a traditional Spanish court dance. It’s another perfect example of Fauré refining his musical ideas into miniature form ...

Difficult, tuneless and degenerate? Far from it. The serialism composers of the Second Viennese School like Schoenberg, Berg and Webern are among the most controversial of the 20th Century, but how do ...

Young Classical Stars with Charlotte Hawkins, Fridays 9pm-10pm. Join Charlotte for a special programme championing some of the best up-and-coming classical musicians. Across the series, Charlotte ...

The love affair that British classical music audiences have with this oratorio is quite phenomenal. Since its Dublin premiere in 1742, it has been performed by choirs across the land every year since ...

Despite being known as a Classical period composer, Beethoven's music broke the mould championed by Haydn and Mozart – his symphonies shook the already highly-esteemed genre to become highest form of ...

Fauré: 15 facts about the Great Composer Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) was one of the most influential of French composers, linking the end of Romanticism with the beginnings of the modern era. His ...

Fantasia Para un Gentilhombre (2) Joaquin Rodrigo Download 'Fantasia Para un Gentilhombre (2)' on iTunes ...

4. Early compositions Between the ages of 12 and 14, Mendelssohn wrote 12 string symphonies influenced by Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. His first published work, a piano quartet, was written by the time ...

1. A Yorkshire lad John Barry was one of the all-time great masters of movie music. His career spanned some 50 years - from Midnight Cowboy and Born Free to Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa - ...