The French composer, Claude Debussy, is known as the first impressionist composer. He was born in 1862 and is often referred to as one of the most influential composers of the time. Some of his most ...

A moving collection of vocal works, including world premiere recordings of music by the eminent Hungarian composer Gyorgy ...

Classical music can feel daunting to dig into if you haven't had a lot of exposure to the genre or didn’t grow up playing an instrument. With so many terms, styles, composers and performers, it can be ...

That said, both Classic FM and the BBC’s Classical Music sister site both consider Bach to be at the top of the classical ...

Some of history's greatest musical minds — Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and others — made bold, uncharacteristic compositions during their last... Deathbed Music: The Final Works Of Famous Composers ...

Unearthing long-buried pieces of history have fuelled the plot of many summer-read novels. But how many of these discoveries happen in real life? In 2024, two library archives announced the unearthing ...

What are the best Christmas carols of all time? We asked 50 choirmasters for their choices... here are the results ...

One of the first directors of the Kyiv Conservatory, Reinhold Gliere (left), "The Father of modern Ukrainian classical music," Mykola Lysenko, and Ukraine's "first woman composer," Stefania Turkewich.

In popular culture, it’s not often that classical music gets a spot in the proverbial spotlight. But more recently, two celebrated films have taken the subject up and earned critical and cultural ...

Some people wonder what it would be like if some of the greatest geniuses in history came back to live in the modern world. This is the case with “ClassicaLoid,” a 2016 music anime focusing on the ...