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11.12.2023
Silent Night
The song was sung simultaneously in French, English, and German by troops during the Christmas truce...
08.12.2023
Chopin’s Christmas music
But what did these musicians get up to during the festive season? And how did it inspire their work?
07.09.2023
José Cura: It takes time to grow from a tiny seed into a huge tree
Exclusive interview with the world-famous artist
22.08.2023
Project to use music to track melting ice in Antarctic
Glenn McClure has had a long musical career as a composer and faculty member at the Eastman School o...
24.03.2023
Heitor Villa-Lobos's style
Use of chirping woodwinds over singing, lyrical strings, full brass and percussion create an atmosph...
20.03.2023
Telemann and the Bachs
Bach and Telemann may have been competitors, but they were also linked personally.
13.03.2023
Pierre Boulez was a groundbreaking composer
Boulez was far from happy with the general standard of Paris music-making,
06.03.2023
Mahler: the great synthesist
He was often accused of being absurdly extravagant, morbid, self-indulgent, unable to discriminate b...
03.03.2023
King Charles’s coronation music
Coronations have taken place in Westminster Abbey since 1066.
24.02.2023
Berlin Phil announces first ever female concertmaster
Latvian violinist, Vineta Sareika-Völkner, has been announced as the new concertmaster of the acclai...
