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.

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.

For Behemoth!, which stars Pedro Pascal as a virtuoso cellist, writer-director Tony Gilroy cast nine of them - and they’re a ...

Ravel's unique work for a war veteran gave the piano repertoire a dark and sombre masterpiece. Losing his right arm in World War I resulted in the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein making an ...

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 ...

Karl van Beethoven, son of Carl and Johanna, was the only child of the three Beethoven brothers, and thus the sole Beethoven of the next generation. Beethoven, his uncle, saw Karl as the Beethoven to ...

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 ...

More proof, as if it were needed, that Claude Debussy was the master of creating dream-like atmospheres in his piano music. Written in 1890, Debussy's Reverie was one of his first solo piano works to ...

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, ...

“I was guided by no system whatever in Le Sacre du Printemps,” wrote Igor Stravinsky in 1961. “I had only my ear to help me; I heard and I wrote what I heard. I am the vessel through which Le Sacre ...