Delicacy. Poignancy. Romance. These are just a few of the words often associated with Frédéric Chopin‘s timeless compositions for piano. That said, Chopin’s music doesn’t have a monopoly on those adjectives. Today, we’re looking at ten works by ten composers

Places and landscapes, both real and imagined, are a rich source of inspiration for composers, resulting in atmospheric and evocative music, some of which was actually written while the composers were travelling or on holiday… Take a short tour with

During the winter, the beach is a lonely wind-swept place. The sea shore piles up with the detritus of the waves: old shells and ragged seaweed. A beach along England’s Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was used as

A barque is a three-masted sailing ship in its original definition, but by the end of the 19th century, it had become downgraded to refer to a small boat or even a rowing boat for inland waters. The idea of

When we think of bubbles, we think of floating air or just the utter joy of watching them catch the sunlight and turn to rainbow colours. In the driest definition, it’s ‘a thin sphere of liquid enclosing a gas’. Mostly.