14 June 1921. The Queen’s Hall, London. This quiet midsummer’s evening saw the first performance of a work that would become one of the most consistently popular pieces of classical music ever ...

They typically have four movements, one of which is in sonata form. Symphonies make up some of the most famous classical pieces. One of the best-known is Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. It opens with ...

Tchaikovsky may have loathed it, but his 1812 Overture has just been voted the UK's most popular piece of classical music. The composer famously said it was "very loud and noisy and completely ...

No pianist is receiving more attention right now than Lim, who two years ago became the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn competition. And if you listen to this album, his debut studio ...

An exquisite rendition of Schubert’s Fifth Symphony from the SCO under Maxim Emelyanychev heads up Ken Walton ’s list of the ...

THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR CLASSICAL ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

For one of the most famous ballads of all time ... Orbit released two albums of classical covers – Pieces in a Modern Style 1 & 2 – creating electronic versions of classical pieces by both ...

Apple Music and Spotify Wrapped have both now shared the top streamed artists of the year. In a year that proved once again women’s power over the pop charts, Taylor Swift was a prominent entry ...

Sony Classical’s two boxes dedicated to Charles Ives—honoring the 150th anniversary of the great American composer’s birth—are this year’s most important reissues. The first ...