Brace yourself for the sound of classical music lovers grinding their teeth. The revered German classical recording company DG, which was once home to luminaries such as Herbert von Karajan, the ...

This might sound ridiculous, but if you’d walked into a record shop in 1955 on the hunt for new music that was radical and unusual, you might well have been handed a copy of an unknown piece of ...

It's a brave new musical world. Between downloads, iPods, music sharing websites and the good old CD, we have more easy access to the songs and symphonies we love than ever before. In this visit to ...

A new Romanian concert tour titled “When Violin Meets Guitar” will bring together rock ballads and classical music in a crossover performance featuring violinist Natalia Pancec and guitarist Emilian ...

No sooner had the French-Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux made a superb San Francisco Symphony debut in Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" last month than this Vivaldi recital disc showed up in the ...

Think of musical perfection and you think of JS Bach. Every note perfectly placed, every harmonic sequence pleasing in its logic, every extended structure immaculately organised. Crucially, Bach's ...

Antonio Vivaldi, “Sinkovsky Plays & Sings Vivaldi”, La Voce Strumentale, Dmitry Sinkovsky (violin, countertenor, conductor), naïve Bird-trills, little shivers, subaltern voices, creaks and accents: ...