Capturing animals in music
- Friday, April 9, 2021
From Saint-Saëns to Copland, pianist An-Ting Chang selects her favourite depictions of birds and beasts in classical music
Features
Video of the Day: Music for Self-Isolation
- Friday, April 9, 2021
Audrey Good plays one of 31 pieces Frank Horvat wrote for self-isolating musicians
This Week's Essential New Albums
- Friday, April 9, 2021
Beethoven's Seventh Symphony from both Teodor Currentzis and Thomas Adès, solo Bach from Augustin Hadelich, Schumann's Lieder by Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton, Tchaikovsky symphonies from Paavo Järvi and more...
Video of the Day: audio-visual Handel from St Martin-in-the-Fields
- Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Nina Dunn projections add extra element to Carolyn Sampson singing Messiah
Gramophone's The Listening Room (6.4.21)
- Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Simon Rattle's Rachmaninov, Pergolesi from Ensemble Resonanz, Peter Jablonski plays Stanchinsky, Anna Lucia Richter sings Monteverdi and Lise Davidsen sings Wagner
Juliet Stevenson | My Music: ‘I’m interested in the classical canon, but only if it relates to now’
- Monday, April 5, 2021
The actor on the links between music and the spoken word, and how knowing about the lives of composers draws you deeper into their work
Carole Boyd | My Music: ‘Recording Façade was absolutely terrifying’
- Monday, April 5, 2021
The actress and star of BBC Radio 4’s The Archers on how words and music relate – not least in William Walton’s Façade
Alice Cooper | My Music: ‘There have always been strong operatic elements in my songs’
- Monday, April 5, 2021
The rock singer on discovering rock‘n’roll and how classical music has influenced his own work
Video of the Day: Gethsemane, by Deborah Pritchard
- Friday, April 2, 2021
A poignant new work, performed by Greta Mutlu and filmed by Theresa Thomas
This Week's Essential New Albums
- Friday, April 2, 2021
Our guide to this week's outstanding new recordings, including Sibelius's Violin Concerto, Byrd in 1588, Ravel's Boléro, French Songs and more...
Why Thomas de Hartmann?
- Thursday, April 1, 2021
Elan Sicroff shines a light on an unfairly neglected composer as a new series of recordings is released on the Nimbus label
Video of the Day: exploring Bach's B Minor Mass
- Wednesday, March 31, 2021
A world-leading line-up of soloists discuss this choral masterpiece, ahead of Live from London's Easter broadcast
Video of the Day: Sinfonia and Chorus from Bach’s Cantata BWV4, Christ lag in Todesbanden
- Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Oxford Bach Soloists perform in New College Chapel in an exclusive preview of their Easter Festival
Cornelia Funke | My Music: ‘Music is the most perfect time machine’
- Monday, March 29, 2021
The children’s author on the relationship between music and her writing
Video of the Day: Et in unum Dominum from Bach's B Minor Mass
- Monday, March 29, 2021
Carolyn Sampson and Iestyn Davies join the AAM in a preview from Live from London's Easter broadcast
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