When plotting out his first season as Minnesota Orchestra music director, Thomas Søndergård decided to focus his winter visit on two countries: Russia and England. After celebrating the new year with ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Friday-Sunday. British composer and conductor Benjamin Britten was born more than 100 years ago, but his work continues to reverberate. Take Britten’s “The ...

This week, Classical Live presents exclusive live recordings from some of the best youth orchestras in Europe; we’ll also ...

Three months after Bergen-Belsen was liberated, Britten and Yehudi Menuhin performed there. Survivor and cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was ‘transfixed’ – as she told the composer when they played tog ...

There’s been nothing like it in musical history: even Beethoven and Mozart have never been so magnificently honoured. Benjamin Britten’s hundredth birthday was celebrated on Friday in 44 countries, ...