Dan Walker, Aled Jones, and Dawn O’Porter will play relaxing classical music across the Bonfire Night weekend to help soothe pets during fireworks season.

6. Encountering Vaughan Williams In 1925, at the suggestion of Adrian Boult, Finzi took a course in counterpoint and then moved to London, where he was introduced to Holst, Bliss and Vaughan Williams, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A modern Mexican classic inspired by a Cuban dance. This work by the prominent Mexican composer Arturo Márquez is one of the most popular and frequently performed Mexican contemporary classical ...

Recorded and published in 1974 in Milan, this sultry tango marks a change in style for composer Astor Piazzolla from classical tango to nuevo tango. While you might not be familiar with the term ...

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12. In love with a student? A student of Vivaldi's, Anna Tessieri Girò, became his favourite prima donna and accompanied the composer on his travels, along with her older half-sister Paolina. There's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...