Introducing a new approach to singing Renaissance music

• Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Editor’s Choice recordings – May 2015

• Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Martin Cullingford's pick of the finest recordings from this month's reviews

Video interviews: Valery Gergiev introduces Shostakovich's symphonies

• Friday, April 17, 2015

Fascinating insights into one of the great symphony cycles of the 20th century

Repetition in music and the power of surprise

• Thursday, April 16, 2015

The story behind the triumphant premiere of Handel's Messiah

• Friday, April 10, 2015

On April 13, 1742, Handel's ever-popular oratorio received its premiere in Dublin

Classics revisited – Christopher Hogwood's recording of Handel's Messiah

• Friday, April 10, 2015

Critics David Vickers and Lindsay Kemp revisit Christopher Hogwood’s classic recording of Handel’s Messiah, now reissued in a limited-edition deluxe edition on Decca

Saint-Saëns's Piano Concerto No 2 – which recording is best?

• Friday, April 10, 2015

This concerto may seem little more than a shallow showpiece, but there’s a lot at stake for the soloist, as Jeremy Nicholas discovers via myriad recordings

Ultra-high-resolution live concert streams have arrived

• Thursday, April 9, 2015

Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No 4 – which recording is best?

• Thursday, April 2, 2015

Andrew Achenbach surveys the recordings of Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No 4, a work of unusual ferocity

Rachmaninov on the future of broadcasting

• Wednesday, April 1, 2015

A revealing interview with Sergey Rachmaninov from April 1931

Aida on Sydney Harbour

• Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Contemporary composer – Brett Dean

• Friday, March 27, 2015

Dean has emerged from the ranks of the Berlin Phil’s viola section with a distinctive voice of his own, says Paul Griffiths

Arthur Rubinstein – the greatest Chopin pianist on record?

• Friday, March 27, 2015

Bryce Morrison recalls the flawless combination of Slavic passion and Gallic precision in this charismatic ‘singer’ pianist, who conducted a lifelong love affair with his audiences