Lise Cristiani was the first recorded female cellist to perform publicly, at a time when women playing the cello was ...

A first glimpse of the new Amadeus TV series starring Will Sharpe as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been unveiled, in a teaser ...

A 24-year-old Japanese pianist was moved to tears during her own performance of Frédéric Chopin ’s Prelude, Op.28, No.15, ...

Two pieces of music by English Baroque composer Henry Purcell have been discovered by teams of musicologists in ...

It’s a medieval torture device that was used – once upon a more primitive time – for publicly shaming bad musicians and other disturbers of the peace. The contraption, which is essentially a heavy ...

Suite Bergamasque (4) Claude Debussy Download 'Suite Bergamasque (4)' on iTunes ...

A star soprano was stunned, as a young opera fan stood up during her Verdi recital to be the Alfredo to her Violetta. When a young Verdi fan noticed his favourite star soprano was without a duet ...

2. Mozart's first concert and a European tour (1762 - 1765) The young Mozart was, as we know, an early starter when it came to music. But he was especially young to be a concert pianist in 1762, and ...

A new study has found classical music, and Mozart in particular, is the most stimulating genre for babies in the womb. Babies in the womb are stimulated by classical music more than other genre, a ...

With the rise of streaming services, young people are listening to more Mozart and Bach than they did 10 years ago. And during lockdown, classical music has experienced a second boom. Classical music ...

It’s one of the greatest Disney songs in history, and Elton John and Lebo M. have just breathed new life into it. But what do the opening Zulu lyrics mean in English? ‘The Circle of Life’, the opening ...

It's one of the most talked-about pieces of classical music in history thanks to its fascinating composition (just how much did Mozart compose himself? Was it really like the scene in Amadeus?), but ...