Classical music, along with nature-inspired virtual reality landscapes, can help reduce blood pressure significantly, new ...

The Hallé orchestra has become the new home of around 1,500 items once belonging to the composer. The archive made a 3,500 ...

The yellow-peach “sun-glow” boa will appear at the Metropolitan Opera with performance artist Zoe Ziegfeld, who plays a snake ...

Researchers have found that lemurs use the ‘formant tuning’ technique taught to opera singers to reach the high notes.

English Baroque composer Henry Purcell wrote his first opera based on the story of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and the Prince of Troy, Aeneas, based on a libretto by Nahum Tate. It was first performed in ...

21. Rejoice in the Lord - Redford John Redford, a renowned Tudor composer who died in 1547, may or may not have written this sprightly choral piece. It's attributed to him, but recent scholarship ...

Beethoven's symphonies broke the mould - but if you're looking to own a set of recordings, which are the best albums to buy? Click on the album covers to listen and download. This fine 1999 set of ...

Johann Sebastian Bach didn’t like students much. Unfortunately for him, the church in Arnstadt where he first worked had a student choir and orchestra. There was no mention of the ensemble in his ...

Every weekday from 4pm, Margherita Taylor provides the perfect soundtrack to your afternoon, keeping you company through to the evening with some brilliant classical music. Margherita offers all the ...

It’s probably an oft-made point, but it’s worth making again: Holst’s 1914 work, The Planets, is not about the planets. That is, it’s not about astronomy. Rather, it’s about astrology. So we are not ...

He may have been the King of Pop, but recent evidence has come to the light that Michael Jackson was working on several instrumental and classical music compositions shortly before he died. US ...

British trumpet virtuoso Alison Balsom introduces her wonderful instrument – a modern adaptation of the “natural” trumpet. “Some people might not even think it looks like a trumpet,” Alison says. “But ...