The most bizarre composer facts Ever wanted to know some truly odd facts about the great composers? Some might've been embellished over the years, but we can't get enough of these strange and ...

Salzburg has hit a bum note with its latest Mozart tribute, after 210 golden statuettes of the composer disappeared from an ...

A tuneful, melodic, and deeply moving choral song. This choral song with words by Gerard Markland is based on four verses from the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 43. The song was a commission that Stopford ...

The 67-year-old will be the main act to perform at the inaugural Land of Song Festival, held in Cardiff’s Principality ...

Internationally-acclaimed piano player, Yuja Wang, is the subject of a new documentary, titled YUJA. One of the most dynamic ...

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 ...

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Composed in 1928, Ravel's rhythmic piece will be forever synonymous with ice-skating stars Torvill and Dean. On Valentine’s Day in 1984, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean became the highest-scoring ...

Rossini’s 1817 opera The Thieving Magpie received a rare boost in the British tabloid press when a judge claimed not to have heard of the footballer Paul ‘Gazza’ Gascoigne, musing, ‘Is there not an ...

Most of us would be hard pressed to describe the characters, plot or musical development of Delibes’s three-act opera Lakmé. Its resurgent popularity in the 1990s was down to one thing: the use of one ...

The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is an extraordinarily reclusive yet successful musician. His 1978 piece Spiegel im Spiegel is among his most famous compositions. The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is an ...

Critics are shocked by the brass neck of it. Yes, really. Brass instruments could soon face a 25% tariff on imports, parts, and accessories, as part of a wider push to expand tariffs on aluminium, ...