Classical Music

Purists might baulk, but Sam Smith headlining BBC Proms opens a pathway to classical music
Claire Jackson

Purists might baulk, but Sam Smith headlining BBC Proms opens a pathway to classical music

Jingoism of Rule, Britannia! has long felt shameful. Is it finally time for BBC Proms to axe it?
Music

Jingoism of Rule, Britannia! has long felt shameful. Is it finally time for BBC Proms to axe it?

How a swanky London townhouse links composer Handel with Jimi Hendrix
Music

How a swanky London townhouse links composer Handel with Jimi Hendrix

Here’s one they played earlier: Pre-recorded orchestras spell trouble for live performance
Music

Here’s one they played earlier: Pre-recorded orchestras spell trouble for live performance

How British composer Karl Jenkins brought the world together
Music

How British composer Karl Jenkins brought the world together

Why English National Opera relocating to Manchester will be more complicated than it looks
Music

Why English National Opera relocating to Manchester will be more complicated than it looks

Morton Feldman at the Tate Modern – an elegy for pioneering artist Philip Guston
Music

Morton Feldman at the Tate Modern – an elegy for pioneering artist Philip Guston

Earworms are the internal soundtrack of our lives. What’s yours?
Gavin Bryars

Earworms are the internal soundtrack of our lives. What’s yours?

How cutting-edge pianist Zubin Kanga is pushing classical music into the future
Classical music

How cutting-edge pianist Zubin Kanga is pushing classical music into the future

Greek island of Lesbos holds spectacular and inclusive classical concert for asylum seekers
Asylum seekers

Greek island of Lesbos holds spectacular and inclusive classical concert for asylum seekers

The Ukrainian musicians fighting rocket attacks with rehearsals
Classical

The Ukrainian musicians fighting rocket attacks with rehearsals

Stravinsky rite of passage is worth protecting
Classical

Stravinsky rite of passage is worth protecting

Joseph Bologne and Karl Jenkins: Misrepresented composers, centuries apart
classical

Joseph Bologne and Karl Jenkins: Misrepresented composers, centuries apart

Chi-chi Nwanoku: ‘It should not be a novelty that there’s more than one Black face on stage’
Letter To My Younger Self

Chi-chi Nwanoku: ‘It should not be a novelty that there’s more than one Black face on stage’

Chi-chi Nwanoku: ‘I was not interested in just playing music by our dead white friends’
Music

Chi-chi Nwanoku: ‘I was not interested in just playing music by our dead white friends’

Chevalier: Kelvin Harrison Jr on being a ‘soldier’ for overlooked Black history
Black history

Chevalier: Kelvin Harrison Jr on being a ‘soldier’ for overlooked Black history

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Erland Cooper’s slowly thawing call to arms
Climate protest

Erland Cooper’s slowly thawing call to arms

Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons reimagined by Michael Morpurgo and Daniel Pioro
Collaboration

Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons reimagined by Michael Morpurgo and Daniel Pioro

Classical pianist RIOPY says anyone can learn to play this anxiety-busting tune in less than an hour. Does it work?
Interview

Classical pianist RIOPY says anyone can learn to play this anxiety-busting tune in less than an hour. Does it work?

Don’t silence the music. Turn it up
Paul McNamee

Don’t silence the music. Turn it up