In May, the world’s most comprehensive Shostakovich event will take over Leipzig - a city that has always treated the ...

The director, producer and actor on how the music of Naples helped her tell the city’s story in her new film ...

This week we feature outstanding new releases from Timothy Ridout, Kent Nagano, Renaud Capuçon and more ...

A return to Southern California finds James Jolly in awe of the $125 million refurbishment of the downtown home of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra ...

As Stephen Hough releases his recording of his own piano concerto, he shares the story of the work’s genesis with James Jolly, and reveals the growing importance of composition in his life ...

Today’s Video of the Day is a performance of Christopher Cerrone’s ‘Ode to Joy’ by the Brooklyn-based percussion ensemble Sandbox Percussion. The piece will feature on Cerrone's new album Don't Look ...

Richard Osborne explores how conductors have approached this most elemental of Beethoven symphonies through more than a century of recorded performances ...

Richard Whitehouse introduces the varied output of the strong-voiced, Berlin-based British composer who started writing music in her early twenties ...

The tabletop ‘music centre’ may be just a distant memory, but where do you start when you want to bring high-quality sound into your life?

In the latest guide to a classical record label, Tim Parry traces the origins and history of a popular British company ...