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24.03.2023
Heitor Villa-Lobos's style
Use of chirping woodwinds over singing, lyrical strings, full brass and percussion create an atmosph...
20.03.2023
Telemann and the Bachs
Bach and Telemann may have been competitors, but they were also linked personally.
13.03.2023
Pierre Boulez was a groundbreaking composer
Boulez was far from happy with the general standard of Paris music-making,
06.03.2023
Mahler: the great synthesist
He was often accused of being absurdly extravagant, morbid, self-indulgent, unable to discriminate b...
03.03.2023
King Charles’s coronation music
Coronations have taken place in Westminster Abbey since 1066.
24.02.2023
Berlin Phil announces first ever female concertmaster
Latvian violinist, Vineta Sareika-Völkner, has been announced as the new concertmaster of the acclai...
20.02.2023
The most popular wedding music ever
Many a bride and groom have left the church to the sound of “the Widor”, as it’s often called. It ce...
17.02.2023
Black composers showcased in new choral anthology
Music from the anthology has been recorded by London Voices, conducted by Shivani Rattan and produce...
13.02.2023
The most expensive piano
It sold for $3.4 million to an anonymous buyer at Bonham’s Auction House in New York in 2014
09.02.2023
The Carnival of the Animals
We can find barking dogs and spring-happy birds in Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, donkey sounds in Mend...
06.02.2023
Luigi Boccherini a truly classical composer
Boccherini’s music has been used in all sorts of unlikely places, including on the soundtrack to the...
