The acclaimed Swedish-American conductor performed the final concert in his seven-decade career earlier this year, at the age ...

Dan Walker, Aled Jones, and Dawn O’Porter will play relaxing classical music across the Bonfire Night weekend to help soothe pets during fireworks season.

The Thieving Magpie - Overture Gioachino Rossini Download 'The Thieving Magpie - Overture' on iTunes ...

An emotive Oscar-winning score from cinema's maestro of movie music. The most successful movie composer ever, John Williams has penned some of the most emotional orchestral music of the past 40 years.

For Behemoth!, which stars Pedro Pascal as a virtuoso cellist, writer-director Tony Gilroy cast nine of them - and they’re a ...

Johann Strauss senior was a major figure in Viennese musical life – but nowadays, he’s not the Strauss most people remember. While Strauss the elder wrote some popular tunes (not least this, his ...

2. Francesca Caccini (1587-1640) Singer, lutenist, poet and teacher, Caccini was the daughter of the great Renaissance composer, Giulio Caccini. She became one of the most influential female European ...

This exquisite four-minute orchestral miniature has far eclipsed the song it was inspired by: namely, ‘Greensleeves’, a traditional melody that was doing the rounds in the days of the Tudors and which ...

The Thieving Magpie - Overture Gioachino Rossini Download 'The Thieving Magpie - Overture' on iTunes ...

A modern Mexican classic inspired by a Cuban dance. This work by the prominent Mexican composer Arturo Márquez is one of the most popular and frequently performed Mexican contemporary classical ...

Composed in 1887, Fauré's graceful Pavane was originally a piano piece, based on a traditional Spanish court dance. It’s another perfect example of Fauré refining his musical ideas into miniature form ...

The love affair that British classical music audiences have with this oratorio is quite phenomenal. Since its Dublin premiere in 1742, it has been performed by choirs across the land every year since ...