She may be obscure today, but Eunice Norton was one of the most fascinating pianists of the 1920s and 1930s: a woman who came from the American Midwest, who made an innovative and international career for herself. Today, we’re looking

In the grand tradition of symphonic music, few works capture the raw anguish of human suffering quite like Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8 in C minor. Composed amid the rubble of World War II, this five-movement epic stands as a

The marvellous German violist Tabea Zimmermann has spent over four decades redefining the role of the viola, transforming the instrument from an orchestral workhorse into a solo instrument of profound expressive power. Her name is synonymous with virtuosity and innovation

The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM), the UK-based charity for church music, invites organists around the world, professional and amateur, to get ‘Hands on with Handel’ in a mass organ ‘play along’ of the Largo (Ombra mai fu) from

Johannes Brahms had famously difficult romantic relationships with women. He had a penchant for idealising women, as well as sabotaging his romantic relationships with them once he got close to proposing. In the first part of this article, we met

Yo-Yo Ma, the world-renowned cellist, is not only a virtuoso of his instrument but also a trailblazer in the realm of musical and cultural collaboration. His career, spanning over six decades, is a testament to his ability to transcend traditional

The life of Bach’s music through the ages always comes back to the master. In this new recording by Armenian pianist Hayk Melikyan, he takes the Bach we know and uses transcriptions by Wilhelm Kempff, Alexander Siloti, Ferruccio Busoni, Johannes

Chinese composer Ye Xiaogang (b. 1955) has been writing an extended series of musical pieces based on plants. His Tropic Plants series includes works such as Scent of Green Mango, December Chrysanthemum, Hibiscus, Gardenia, Enchanted Bamboo, Datura, The Silence of