The BBC is set to announce plans to make its back catalogue of classical music available to the public. Director general Tony Hall is expected to say the move will mean historic and recent ...

It’s a new way to discover classical music from the BBC, featuring hundreds of unique audio recordings all performed by the BBC Orchestras, Choirs and New Generation Artists. And alongside these ...

In March 2019, the streaming service Deezer reported a 270% rise in the number of subscribers to its most popular classical music playlist, with 43% of those new listeners being millennials.

The Musicians' Union (MU) has described proposed cuts to the BBC's classical music performing groups, announced on Tuesday, as "utterly devastating". The cuts will see the end of the BBC Singers ...

August 30, 2024 • Rapper RZA, who helped launch the Wu-Tang Clan hip-hop group in the 1990s, tries his hand in classical music by composing for a ballet inspired by Greek musical scales during ...

Today we’re celebrating the 1867 birthday of American composer Amy Beach with a few of her pieces throughout the day, including her Piano Quintet in F-Sharp-minor for today’s Midday Masterpiece.

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Summer’s lease hath all too short a date, and, along with the recent chill in the air, the end, on Saturday evening, of the eight, tightly packed weeks of Britain’s most enduring summer musical ...

Classics makes a dynamic and rewarding stand alone major, but it can be (and often is) paired with a second major. The Department of Classical Languages and Literatures regards its principal mission ...

BBC Symphony Orchestra are joined by violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and conductor ... although Schoenberg uses tone rows in its composition, the work’s structure is quite classical, and many of the ...

The BBC director general Tim Davie has defended the broadcaster’s decision not to sack Huw Edwards in November, despite knowing the materials in question were in the most serious category of ...