British musicians are being hit by a “double whammy” of Covid-19 restrictions and costly post-Brexit bureaucracy that could decimate European...
Classical music
The title of Sleaford Mods’ sixth album is apparently an oblique reference to the fatalities in the first wave of...
In 1934, all of musical England gathered to celebrate the 75th birthday of one the country’s most famous composers –...
When my book Rough Ideas was published last year I, like everyone else on the planet, had no idea how...
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) dominated classical music at the turn of the 20th century with a series of works that pushed...
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) was a passionate Czech whose music transcended national boundaries and, indeed, crossed the world. A contemporary of...
I loved Italian neorealist films as a teenager because they always featured somebody struggling to find themselves in a city....
A German composer who brought Italian musical fashions to a London audience, George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) is the baroque era’s...
Few composers dominate their country’s music more completely than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). His emergence as a composer of international stature...
In February 1959, while on a visit to fellow composer Luciano Berio in Milan, John Cage appeared five times on...
