While playing the public piano at the airport, I met Jakub Józef Orliński, and the encounter turned into an unexpected ...

He's one of the defining figures of Baroque music - and of classical music in general. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi - Venetian composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher, one-time Catholic priest - is a hugely ...

Michael Abels writes scores for Jordan Peele. He won a Pulitzer Prize for the opera “Omar.” Now, the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center shows off his classical side. By Anastasia Tsioulcas “In ...

The violinist’s rethinking of Vivaldi’s best known work includes four new poems by (and read by) Michael Morpurgo but, placed together at the start of the disc, the music and poetry feels disconnected ...

Think of musical perfection and you think of JS Bach. Every note perfectly placed, every harmonic sequence pleasing in its logic, every extended structure immaculately organised. Crucially, Bach's ...

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It's a brave new musical world. Between downloads, iPods, music sharing websites and the good old CD, we have more easy access to the songs and symphonies we love than ever before. In this visit to ...

The first half of 2020 has really shown music’s ability to bring people together and provide comfort in difficult times, whether it’s people singing on balconies during lockdown to entertain their ...