Antonio Vivaldi wrote more than 500 concertos. Today, most people know four of them. But those four — commonly known as “The Four Seasons” — have become part of our cultural fabric. They may not even ...

Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is the music we are often tortured with while on hold to speak to a bank or utility company.

If the festival is wondrous in its music, it's also a miracle of organization and coordination. Music has to be ordered far in advance from firms all over the world. "Some music came from South ...

East versus West. Turn on the nightly news, and you’ll be bombarded with it, the clash of cultures and civilisations that’s fuelled a billion narratives and seems to have existed since time began.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Academics, journalists and students packed a university hall today as musical history was made with the first performance for 2½ ...

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 ...

What is known as a cover in pop music -- a composer and/or performer making a song his or her own -- is ancient history in classical music. In medieval and Renaissance times, the chant tune on which ...

If music was a numbers game, this composer would be the undisputed greatest. He wrote a lot of music. In fact, people who aren’t fans of his describe his music as being "cookie-cutter" or "samey." ...

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 ...