When it comes to funeral music, most of us expect the classics: Ave Maria, Time to Say Goodbye, or a moving orchestral piece.

Extraordinary archival footage from 1980 has resurfaced, showing legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman in a rare vocal ...

In the video, the Serbian sportsman is seen miming along with an... unconventional bow hold, to the Allegro non molto of ...

Paul Bettany (A Very British Scandal) joins Sharpe ( The White Lotus) as envious court composer Salieri, alongside Gabrielle Creevy ( Black Doves) as Constanze Weber, Mozart’s wife and Rory Kinnear ( ...

In 2021, researchers at Birmingham City University warned that A-level music in schools is at risk of disappearing by 2033 ...

In the recording, he speaks with composers Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Anton Rubinstein, pianist and conductor Vasily ...

Opera houses aren’t just places to listen to the world’s most beautiful music – they are also some of the world’s most ...

Siberian-born Maxim Vengerov is one of the greatest violinists in the world today, acclaimed for his concerts, award-winning recordings and humanitarian work. As he turns 40, here are 10 facts about ...

As we’re all missing live performance, two Bocellis give us a special moment of music. The star tenor Andrea Bocelli has released a beautiful new duet with his eight-year-old daughter, Virginia ...

Ravel: 15 facts about the great composer He wrote the ice skaters’ favourite Bolero, a jazzy Piano Concerto and a Pavane for a Dead Princess. Find out more about the complex composer Maurice Ravel.

An order of nuns perform a spirited viral dance in locked-down Ireland… Thirteen Redemptoristine nuns at a County Dublin monastery have mastered a viral dance challenge, to “cheer people up” in ...

Nobody on record has managed to stand in the world’s quietest room for a whole hour. In 2015, Microsoft built the quietest place on earth. But while it may sound like a sanctuary of meditative bliss, ...