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 ...

Two sisters come together for an energetic public performance of Vivaldi’s “Summer,” one of the most recognizable movements from The Four Seasons. From the familiar opening passages to the ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

It's a brave new musical world. Between downloads, iPods, music sharing websites and the good old CD, we have more easy access to the songs and symphonies we love than ever before. In this visit to ...

It starts with a shimmer of something strange and soft, an ambient mist of strings that's both electronic and acoustic. Then something weird happens. Out of these shifting sonic tides comes an ...

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 ...

Think of musical perfection and you think of JS Bach. Every note perfectly placed, every harmonic sequence pleasing in its logic, every extended structure immaculately organised. Crucially, Bach's ...

Antonio Vivaldi, “Sinkovsky Plays & Sings Vivaldi”, La Voce Strumentale, Dmitry Sinkovsky (violin, countertenor, conductor), naïve Bird-trills, little shivers, subaltern voices, creaks and accents: ...

No sooner had the French-Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux made a superb San Francisco Symphony debut in Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" last month than this Vivaldi recital disc showed up in the ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. Imagine being a music scholar whose nose is constantly buried in dusty archives looking for who knows what. Then one day, after years of research, you make ...

Vivaldi’s Il Tamerlano rides again; a first for Malcolm Arnold’s The Dancing Master; and James MacMillan’s new work for 40 voices As labours of love go, the French label Naïve’s Vivaldi edition, begun ...