Hungarian-born pianist and conductor Andras Schiff will appear in the annual Christmas concert in Nazareth alongside the Galilee Orchestra today. Schiff will play Beethoven’s Piano … Read more
Award-winning Hungarian cellist Istvan Vardai has been granted an extended loan of the 1673 Stradivari ‘Du pre-Harrell’ cello. The instrument was purchased in a recent … Read more
Today in 1770, Ludwig van Beethoven, whose exact date of birth remains unknown, was baptised in Bonn. What better way to mark the anniversary 246 … Read more
As the latest Star Wars edition, Rogue One, hit the cinemas across the UK yesterday, orchestras were on hand to play a selection from the … Read more
Christmas music has been playing on radio stations and in stores now for at least a month, meaning that you’ve probably heard all the seasonal … Read more
A German commission tasked with ruling on whether works of art or other cultural items were seized from their owners during Nazi rule has concluded … Read more
Historical records suggest that Beethoven began music lessons with Joseph Haydn on 12 December, 1792, shortly after his arrival in Vienna. While it is unclear … Read more
Renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma will begin a youth programme for young musicians in China next month. He will serve as artistic director for the two-week … Read more
Murray Perahia is considered one of the leading interpreters of J.S. Bach’s music. The pianist began a series of video blogs looking in turn at … Read more
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who won the BBC’s Young Musician of the Year award in May, has been given a lifelong loan of a 1610 Amati cello. … Read more
The list of nominees for the Grammies was released on Wednesday, with the awards ceremony set for February 2017. Classical music will be represented in … Read more
The Mariinsky Orchestra performed the Funeral Song by Igor Stravinsky on 2 December, marking only the second time the work has been performed since its … Read more
BBC Radio 3 is beginning a project to uncover the lost works of women composers in a joint partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research … Read more
Anyone unaware of the dramatic license taken in the play and film “Amadeus” might think that the genius composed the last bars of his Requiem … Read more
Bartolomeo Cristofori, the inventor of the piano, created the instrument around the turn of the 18th century. The first hard evidence of a piano in … Read more