Rising Star horn player Annemarie Federle plays the final movement of Joseph Haydn's heart-racing horn concerto, including a cadenza that shows just why Annemarie was selected to be one of the ...

John Williams' spine-chilling 'Duel of the Fates' theme from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Performed by the Royal Liverpool ...

From ‘kind Amaryllis, the wanton country maid’ (Thomas Campion, ‘I care not for these ladies’) to ‘I love you, I love you, I love you, like never before’ (Fleetwood Mac, ‘Songbird’) this neatly ...

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra review – Vasily Petrenko conducts Ustvolskaya, Beethoven and Shostakovich at the Royal Festival Hall ...

Orchestras and festival organizers continually develop and experiment with new concert formats for classical music. But do ...

For great British pop musician David Bowie, classical music was one of many important influences, says Andrew Green ...

What followed is a 55-year love affair with classical music — branching out to discover greats like Brahms, Bruch, Mahler, Chopin, Copland, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Elgar as well as lesser known ...

Chicago might have already hit its first deep freeze, but the local classical music scene pulses with life this season. Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, the Chicago Symphony’s artist-in-residence, ...

American pianist and composer Chloe Flower is on a mission to get young people into classical music. She’s doing it by collaborating with rap, house and pop stars, and creating her own genre of music, ...

In a high-concept meta bait-and-switch, Pam Tanowitz choreographed Beethoven’s Pastoral symphony, then swapped out the score for a new para-Pastoral, by Caroline Shaw. Anyone (okay, almost nobody) can ...

If you’re holding your breath awaiting the end of the compact-disc era, don’t exhale quite yet. Because, yes, there’s more. Believe it or not, the great conductors of the past (to say nothing of ...

Let us make the case that the most successful music conservatory is not in Paris, Vienna or Berlin but rather, in a house on a tree-lined street in Nottingham, England. It might be an unpretentious ...