Why we are bringing Strauss's Elektra out of the opera house

• Friday, February 21, 2020

Chief Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits, is bringing Richard Strauss's Elektra to concert halls in Bournemouth and Birmingham

The Listening Room: Episode 91 (17.2.20)

• Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Daniel Hope and friends play Chausson; Masaaki Suzuki conducts Bach's St Matthew Passion, Konstantin Lifschitz plays Beethoven and John Eliot Gardiner conducts Schumann, plus taster tracks from Mutter, Ma and Barenboim, Eric Lu and Aleksandra Kurzak

Video of the day: Elsa Benoit records Handel's 'Se giunge un dispetto' from Agrippina with Il Pomo d'Oro

• Monday, February 17, 2020

Cambridge Audio AXC35 CD player and AXA35 amplifier review

• Monday, February 17, 2020

Part of the latest entry-level range from the British-based company, there’s something old fashioned about this pairing – both in features and value

Brass is back: the re-invention of brass chamber music

• Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Simon Cox and Septura are seeking to create a new repertoire for brass chamber ensemble

Video of the day: the creative process of composer Tania León

• Monday, February 10, 2020

Tania León introduces her Project 19 commission, Stride, for the New York Philharmonic

Preserving Beethoven's Legacy

• Thursday, February 6, 2020

Since the arrival of the gramophone, the range and interpretative possibilities of Beethoven’s music have been revealed as never before, writes Richard Osborne

The Listening Room: Episode 90 (4.2.20)

• Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Mezzo Kate Lindsey sings Haydn, Alexandre Kantorow plays José Serebrier's piano concerto, John Wilson conducts Chabrier, songs from Mary Bevan and Nicholas Phan, and an impressive first encounter with the the striking voice of tenor Petr Nekoranec

What is an Oratorio?

• Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Richard Wigmore traces the history of this sacred genre from the 17th century onwards

Extraordinary violin painting is a highlight of new Tate exhibition

• Tuesday, February 4, 2020

'British Baroque: Power and Illusion' explores relationship between power and art in Restoration Britain

Secret symphonies: reimagining the classical concert experience

• Monday, February 3, 2020

Earlier this season, Music Director Robert Trevino and his Basque National Orchestra presented a unique series of concerts with the programme kept entirely secret. It was a sensational success. But no-one knew, says Robert Trevino, just how great a risk it was

Icons: Hans Swarowsky

• Friday, January 31, 2020

Peter Quantrill champions the Austrian conductor and pedagogue who once wavered between the callings of music and psychoanalysis, and about whom many still wax lyrical

The complete guide to Franz Schubert, part one: the symphonies

• Thursday, January 30, 2020

In the first of a three-part series, Michael Quinn talks about Schubert's symphonies to conductors, Sir Colin Davis, Roger Norrington and Frans Briiggen and Schubert scholar Brian Newbould

The complete guide to Franz Schubert, part two: piano and chamber music

• Thursday, January 30, 2020

In the second of a three-part series, Harriet Smith talks about Schubert's piano and chamber music with pianists Imogen Cooper, András Schiff and Mitsuko Uchida and string-players Christophe Coin and Thomas Kakuska

The complete guide to Franz Schubert, part three: vocal music

• Thursday, January 30, 2020

In the last of a three-part series, Hilary Finch talks about Schubert's vocal music with singers Brigitte Fassbaender, Christa Ludwig, Ian Bostridge and David Wilson-Johnson and pianists Graham Johnson and David Owen Norris