The Blue Bird Charles Villiers Stanford Download 'The Blue Bird' on iTunes ...

The rudiments of music, in cookie form. Also on Classic FM Listen to Global Player Classic FM Breakfast with Dan Walker John Williams Alexander Armstrong on Classic FM Quizzes Leonard Bernstein Mozart ...

8. Second World War years By 1944, von Karajan was, in his own words, losing favor with the Nazi leadership, but he still conducted concerts in wartime Berlin. In the closing stages of the war, he and ...

For a work as seemingly Spanish as Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, it initially seems bizarre that many people’s first encounter with it is forever linked to the fictional Yorkshire town of Grimley.

Demonstrating the many facets of the cello - from growling low chords to tripping semiquaver scales in the instrument's sweet high register - Haydn redefined orchestral playing with his fantastic ...

The oboe is officially one of the most difficult instruments to play. Oboists, we feel for you: and not just because of the double-reed misery, the duck noises, the tuning issues and Jeremy Irons ...

The Ashokan Farewell Jay Ungar Download 'The Ashokan Farewell' on iTunes ...

1. The young Ralph Vaughan Williams Born in the village of Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, Ralph Vaughan Williams was related to Charles Darwin (Ralph's great-uncle) and the ceramics giant Josiah ...

Thirteen Redemptoristine nuns at a County Dublin monastery have mastered a viral dance challenge, to “cheer people up” in lockdown. Aged between 28 and 92, the sisters perform the Jerusalema dance ...

2. Mozart's first concert and a European tour (1762 - 1765) The young Mozart was, as we know, an early starter when it came to music. But he was especially young to be a concert pianist in 1762, and ...

2. Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710) Composer, guitarist, organist and priest, Sanz studied at the University of Salamanca, where he was later appointed Professor of Music. He wrote three volumes of tutorials ...

Hear the ‘Seikilos Epitaph’; written in Ancient Greece, it is the oldest surviving musical composition. Written in the 1st or 2nd century CE, the Song of Seikilos was discovered on a tombstone in ...