The pieces so powerful that you’ll be out of your seat, air-conducting to the full force of an imaginary orchestra, or ...

Discover our selection of the best classical music for spring featuring 10 essential pieces. Delius’ tone poem On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring is a beautiful example of nature manifested ...

In 19 cases of chicken and egg, we explore the times pop artists were influenced by their classical predecessors. For the intro of her single ‘Alejandro’, Gaga neatly nabbed Csárdás, the rhapsodic ...

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 ...

Ravel’s solo piano works, choral pieces by David Lang and Palestrina, and miniatures written for the pianist Adam Tendler are among the highlights.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The first might be the most famous tune ever written. Everyone knows this one as “Pomp and Circumstance.” However, it is only the first of six pomp and circumstance marches written by Edward Elgar.