Australian composer Graham Hair (b 1943) tried to summarise his piano works with a sentence that carries us from the 14th century to modern world music ideas. A compositional period that started in 2008 has resulted in a wealth of

Antonio Vivaldi isn’t the only composer who looked at the whole year to put it into music. He used the vehicle of a violin concerto. Pyotr Tchaikovsky, on the other hand, put it all in the hands of a pianist

In their most recent recording of choral music by Sir James MacMillan, Phillip Cooke, Henrik Dahlgren, and Andrew Smith, the Caritas Chamber Choir gathers new works. All the works on the album are world premiere recordings. The major composer on

Inspired by night, the Nocturne first came into our musical language in the 18th century, but the idea of a night-time work comes from the ancient church, where ‘nocturn’ was the last of the seven prayers of the day. Held

For the summer season in 1912 and for three weeks in the Spring of 1913, Ralph Vaughan Williams was invited to Stratford-upon-Avon to compose incidental music and conduct for the Shakespeare productions. Vaughan Williams was invited by Sir Frank Benson,

A new recording on Ulysses Arts of the string quartets of British composer Paul Henley’s String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 is a far cry from Goethe’s imaginary discussion between 4 intelligent people. This isn’t a rational discussion but rather

English composer George Benjamin (b. 1960) started working with British playwright Martin Crimp (b.1956) in 2006, resulting in four operas: Into the Little Hill (2006), Written on Skin (2012), Lessons in Love and Violence (2018), and Picture a Day Like

In his new 2-CD recording for Deutsche Grammophon, pianist Grigory Sokolov (b. 1950) gives a very thoughtful recording of two musical giants who rarely appear on the same program together: Henry Purcell and Mozart. Better known in Europe than in