Iceland’s music scene is thriving with such outstanding Icelandic artists as pianist Vikingur Ólafsson, who has appeared worldwide. Pianist Ólafsson sings on the instrument. https://www.vikingurolafsson.com/videos Composers Jón Leifs, Haflidi Hallgrimsson, Anna Thorvaldsdottir and others are making their mark in Iceland

Baroque instruments meeting electronic techno? While “crossover” has become a buzzword, the audience’s threshold for surprise is higher than ever. Yet, the Belgian B’Rock Orchestra recently managed to shatter the last remnants of their “early music” label. In their production

In 1875, the English lawyer Arthur Duke Coleridge, an amateur musician with influential connections, spent some time in Leipzig studying music alongside the young Charles Villiers Stanford. He became acquainted with Bach‘s B-minor Mass, a work that had received its

The new book Bach: The Cello Suites by Edward Klorman features exhaustive research into the six Bach Cello Suites and is available as a new Cambridge Music Handbook through Cambridge University Press. This handbook is not to be underestimated, despite

Browse streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube, as well as broadcasters like the BBC, and you will find curated playlists of music for relaxation, calm, winding down, nighttime, and sleep. That Max Richter’s Sleep – his landmark

This new edition of The Savvy Musician by David Cutler is a comprehensive, practical guide for musicians at any career stage, especially those starting out or seeking a career refresh. The Savvy Musician asserts that real success in music requires

John Cage: Dream (arr. for harp) (Floraleda Sacchi, harp) Most famous for his iconic – and polarising – composition 4’33”, John Cage was a composer, artist, and thinker whose explorations and experiments changed the course of classical composition. His compendium

In the UK, classical music, and opera in particular, is seen as “the most elitist” of all the arts. Myths and perceptions surrounding opera – that it is expensive, intellectual, foreign, requires dressing up in formal clothes to attend, and