With John Banister’s concert, music escapes the court and church, and the age of the paying public begins. This programme ...
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With birdsong, Bach Before 7 and the best in classical ...
The line-up of this year’s BBC Proms will feature a season-long celebration of American music to mark 250 years since the signing of the US Declaration of Independence. It will include the Proms debut ...
Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and producer Devonté Hynes presents a new 12-part series, Composed with Devonté Hynes, with the first three episodes available on BBC Sounds. The series will be on ...
Following last year's classical review looking at the sector and the BBC's role within it, the BBC has set out a new strategy to strengthen its public purpose for classical music, delivering the best ...
Quotas should be introduced to broaden the range of classical music composers featured in concerts and on radio stations, says a BBC presenter. Kate Molleson, who presents a show on the BBC’s ...
It offered a fount of tumultuous stories, ranging across three centuries of classical composers who happened to be black. First, Charles Ignatius Sancho, born on a slave ship in about 1729; and the ...
As the World Cup gets underway, we look at music that has soundtracked the beautiful game - and the composers who have loved it ...