Harriet Constable explores Venice’s Ospedale della Pietà, the girls’ orphanage where Vivaldi taught and composed ...

For those used to hearing the CSO at full scale, with its famous brass section booming at full volume, this evening’s concert ...

If the festival is wondrous in its music, it's also a miracle of organization and coordination. Music has to be ordered far in advance from firms all over the world. "Some music came from South ...

This might sound ridiculous, but if you’d walked into a record shop in 1955 on the hunt for new music that was radical and unusual, you might well have been handed a copy of an unknown piece of ...

East versus West. Turn on the nightly news, and you’ll be bombarded with it, the clash of cultures and civilisations that’s fuelled a billion narratives and seems to have existed since time began.

Brace yourself for the sound of classical music lovers grinding their teeth. The revered German classical recording company DG, which was once home to luminaries such as Herbert von Karajan, the ...