As summer winds down and the weather gets reasonable, what kind of music would you use to signal the end of the long days of play (or work) and the new days with that crisp of a light chill? At

The 2025 season of BBC Proms, “the world’s greatest classical music festival”, has finished for another year, but the memories live on, in reviews, social media posts, on the BBC’s Listen Again service – and in Andy Lewis’ Marathon Proms

Sometimes musical compositions aren’t the only creative works that composers leave behind. Some wrote memoirs (or works such as letters or diaries that can be collected and read as memoirs). These pieces of writing often provide fascinating insights into composers’

Over the past few weeks, rehearsals have been well underway for the chamber opera Hidden Lovers, composed by Janet Oates. Opening the Tête-à-Tête opera festival at the Cockpit Theatre in London, the opera’s musical forces consist of a string trio,

Nikola Meeuwsen, winner of the 2025 Queen Elisabeth Competition at the tender age of 23, performed as part of HKU MUSE’s Piano Laureates in Concert series, alongside laureates of the Van Cliburn, Chopin and Leipzig Bach competitions. For his Hong

Autumn is the time of change – leaves change colour and change position from high on a tree to down on the ground, we change from sun-loving (or hating) to bundled up and wind-blown, and our blue skies turn dark.

Franz Xaver Mozart, the son of the great composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, had a long-term love affair with a wealthy married woman named Josephine von Baroni-Cavalcabò. Josephine was a talented musician, and Franz taught her daughter Julie. Julie went on