Naysayers be damned. Classical music on record continues to thrive, or so it seems judging from the plethora of boxed sets that have come our way this year. As ever, milestone birthdays were ...
OUSSAMA ZAHR There may have been no harder hitting one-two punch in music this year than Julius Eastman’s “Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc,” a harrowing solo vocal work ...
London has more world-famous symphony orchestras than any other city in the world ... The Victorian era saw a proliferation of classical music organisations, beginning with the Philharmonic Society, ...