The king of rock n' roll himself based this ballad on an 18th Century piece by French composer Jean-Paul-Égide Martini. It was covered many more times, most ... dance music’s best known tracks ...

14 June 1921. The Queen’s Hall, London. This quiet midsummer’s evening saw the first performance of a work that would become one of the most consistently popular pieces of classical music ever ...

An exquisite rendition of Schubert’s Fifth Symphony from the SCO under Maxim Emelyanychev heads up Ken Walton ’s list of the ...

Tchaikovsky may have loathed it, but his 1812 Overture has just been voted the UK's most popular piece of classical music. The composer famously said it was "very loud and noisy and completely ...

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You could easily make the case that the Danish is the world’s best string ... performances of the classical repertoire but also in their imaginative reworkings of folk music.

With the Chicago Symphony Orchestra away all January for its first European tour since COVID (yay!), the first month of the year, already a sleepy month on this list, could be practically catatonic.

Classical music can feel daunting to dig into if you haven't had a lot of exposure to the genre or didn’t grow up playing an instrument. With so many terms, styles, composers and performers, it ...

Two of the world's most famous ... favourite pieces from Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt and his musical idol, Chopin. "Wherever I play, I always hope to perform the best of classical music," he ...

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