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

Sleeping Beauty - Waltz Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky Download 'Sleeping Beauty - Waltz' 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 ...

3. Composer of musicals In the theatre, Howard Goodall’s musicals - from 'The Hired Man' (pictured) written with Melvyn Bragg in 1984 to 'Love Story' in 2010 - have been performed in the West End, Off ...

Difficult, tuneless and degenerate? Far from it. The serialism composers of the Second Viennese School like Schoenberg, Berg and Webern are among the most controversial of the 20th Century, but how do ...

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 ...

Discover the visions, the biography, songs and famous quotes of this legendary composer and saint Hildegard of Bingen was a saint, composer and poet. But it's only recently that her songs, writings ...

Young Classical Stars with Charlotte Hawkins, Fridays 9pm-10pm. Join Charlotte for a special programme championing some of the best up-and-coming classical musicians. Across the series, Charlotte ...

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 ...

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. Haydn wrote 107 symphonies in total, as well as 83 string quartets, ...

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 ...