There are still two weeks left to enter our fabulous competition to win tickets for  Roderick Williams  and Julius Drake's recital on ...

This year's Malcolm Arnold Festival in Northampton will be putting the composer's concertos centre stage. The Festival runs from 1...

Hanns Eisler is something of a contradictory composer. Described by Schoenberg as his favourite pupil, Eisler then questioned what music w...

When I was at university in the 1970's, busy learning about music as well as mathematics, Rosalyn Tureck was still one of the icons of...

Edgaras Montvidas, Andrew Shore, Julia Sporsen photo:Robert Workman/ENO The premiere of English National Opera's new production of ...

Caffarelli was one of the major figures in 18th century Italian opera, a castrato who was as famous as his compatriot Farinelli . In fact ...

Hannah Pedley in Jason, Photography: Richard Hubert Smith Cavalli's Jason ( Giasone ) was written for Venice in 1649 and was one ...

An intriguing and remarkable film was released this summer, showcasing a moving and remarkable story. The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My...

The Joyful Company of Singers, conductor Peter Broadbent, launches its 25th anniversary season with a concert St Sepulchre without Newgate...

This new recording of Handel's Aci, Galatea et Polifemo  represents the final volume in Fabio Bonizzoni's survey of Handel's I...

Coronation of Poppea , photograph Richard Hubert Smith James Conway's production of Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea  was seen ...

This new book, by Stuart Isacoff, is billed as 'The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians - from Mozart to Modern Jazz and everything ...

The English Chamber Orchestra's concert tonight (9 October 2013) at the Cadogan Hall launches Cadogan Hall's new Chamber Orchestra...

Nigel Foster's London Song Festival   returns for five concerts starting later this month, with concerts on 23, 30 October, 4, 6, 13 N...

Gilllian Webster as Agrippina, © Robert Workman Handel's Agrippina , written for Venice in 1709, is the composer's first signifi...

In a welcome sign of investment in and confidence in the musical arts, the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium has announced the deve...

Pauline Viardot as Orpheo in 1860 Buxton Festival has announced the operas for its 2014 festival, which runs from 11 to 27 July 2014. T...

Recently Co-Opera Co undertook a mini survey of their audiences; a perhaps surprising conclusion from this survey was that the majority of...

In May 2011, Joseph Nolan recorded Charles-Marie Widor's ten organ symphonies at La Madeleine, Paris for Signum . This disc is the th...

The 30 th anniversary concert of the English Poetry and Song Society at St. James's Church , Piccadilly on the 4 th October 2013 wa...