The conductor Stephen Layton achieves heavenly swells that push the choir’s plushness to ever greater volumes ... no harder hitting one-two punch in music this year than Julius Eastman ...

Naysayers be damned. Classical music on record continues to thrive, or so it seems judging from the plethora of boxed sets that have come our way this year. As ever, milestone birthdays were ...

But without them, music as turbulent ... much-loved fixture in the classical calendar, launching the New Year in a blaze of optimism. But sustaining that joy is an ever-increasing struggle for ...

Elton John could take one hit out of his catalogue and still be one of the best to ever do it, but he knew that he reached a ...

Other highlights include his pungent, earthy Shostakovich (try his terrifying version 11 th Symphony) and cogent performances of music by Bliss ... disc of Schubert’s F minor Fantasy in the last ever ...

Barbara Poplawska, a 29-year-old conductor from the Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI), recently visited Bengaluru, bringing her passion for Western classical ... make the best of our music.

Still, in the midst of the chaos, I found astonishing beauty in many places: Simone Biles' performances at the Paris Olympics, the kaleidoscopic late-night aurora borealis light shows and in much soul ...

Classical music on record continues to thrive, or so it seems judging from the plethora of boxed sets that have come our way this year. As ever ... Ansermet was best known for founding L ...

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

There is 'Maria' and there is Maria Callas. Our classical music critic on how the Netflix movie compares with the Maria ...

scroll down to discover some of the best pieces of relaxing classical music ever written. Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto has become one of the composer’s best-known works and is one of the best ...

Colin Davis’s 1968 LSO disc still sounds superb, though Gardner’s live account is the best modern version ... after which he felt able “to make music more deeply and joyfully than ever before”. This ...