Gillian Moore is joined by a roster of distinguished historians for this major new BBC Radio 3 series, charting a course ...

François Couperin was one of the baroque era’s greatest keyboard composers. Did he write any orchestral music? Er, no. Though listen to a few minutes of Hugo Reyne’s version of his trio sonata “La ...

Classical music struck me as a chore when I was a kid. It’s not that I didn’t like the way it sounded; I was just too restless to sit through the concerts my mother would drag me to, or even to make ...

Ruperto Chapí: String Quartets 1 and 2 Cuarteto Latinoamericano (Sono Luminus) Think string quartet and you tend to think Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart. Maybe Bartók and Shostakovich. But generally ...

This is a collection of music composed by William Byrd for viol consort, probably between 1560 and 1603. The viol is the ancestor of the cello, a fretted, bowed instrument with six strings. It comes ...

Kamran Ince: Hot, Red, Cold, Vibrant, Requiem Without Words, Before Infrared, Symphony No 5, ‘Galatasaray’ Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, Turkish Ministry of Culture Choir/Kamran Ince (Naxos) This is a ...

Sofia Fomina in 'Guillaume Tell' at Covent Garden in London. Rossini's five act grand opera Guilliaume Tell is having a controversial run of performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in ...

Amid reports of insolvent symphony orchestras, lackluster box-office receipts and sagging CD sales, classical music is still very much alive. Classical blogs, social-media sites and listservs are only ...

Desandre flies in a vivacious baroque programme, while a new edition of Rossini’s late work is small but perfectly formed The young French-Italian mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre studied ballet for 12 ...