Franz Liszt is one of the most celebrated figures of nineteenth-century music: a composer, conductor, mentor, and pianist who redefined modern virtuosity. The longest modern Liszt biography is Professor Alan Walker’s three-volume work, which was published between 1983 and 1996.

The Italian organist and composer Marco Enrico Bossi (1861-1925) was the first internationally famous Italian concert artist. The Kingdom of Italy bestowed on him the highest ranks, and he became an honorary member of the most prestigious foreign and Italian

The countertenor is a rare voice in an adult male singer, so much so that it’s natural to wonder what one is hearing as an audience member. Although the countertenor has a natural speaking voice, his vocal range is surprisingly

Few composers have lived a life as dramatic as Sergei Rachmaninoff. Born into Russian aristocracy, he survived professional humiliation, revolution, and exile – and still managed to produce some of the most beloved music ever written. Whether you know him

Ralph Vaughan Williams remained creatively active into old age. Between 1954 and 1958, he composed four songs to poems by his second wife, Ursula Vaughan Williams. Possibly intended as two separate song cycles, they were assembled and published posthumously under

Frédéric Chopin, arguably the most famous pianist in classical music history, suffered from stage fright and performance anxiety. In March 1830, when he was twenty years old and preparing to leave his beloved hometown to make his name beyond Poland,

Vache Baroque co-founding music director Jonathan Darbourne delves into the supernatural sounds and music of their new production with Out of Chaos. ‘This music crept by me on the waters’ (Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2) Spoiler alert –

Can you name the longest-running series of family concerts of classical music in the world? If you grew up in the second half of the 20th century, this is probably not a really difficult question. The answer, of course, is