As Arvo Pärt enters his tenth decade, Andrew Mellor examines how the worlds of contemporary music, recording, performance practice and geopolitics continue to respond to this most pivotal of figures ...

Could a composer ask for a more sincere and committed advocate than conductor Andrew Manze? As he releases a new recording with his beloved RLPO, he chats with Andrew Mellor about his many and varied ...

It’s a staggering achievement, helped partly by Solbrekken’s having written two previous Flagstad books and being an expert in Second World War Norwegian history, as well as being a playwright' ...

Today's Video of the Day is a performance of 'Shall we gather at the River' by VOCES8, VOCES8 Scholars, VOCES8 Alumni and the BBC Singers arranged by Blake Morgan. This video marks the first day of ...

Arvo Pärt: celebrating the composer at 90; Lea Desandre and Thomas Dunford record songs of passion; Debussy's Le martyre de Saint Sébastien: the top versions ...

Jeremy Nicholas champions an almost forgotten Hungarian pianist who not only worked as teaching assistant to Bartók but also played under some of the great European conductors ...

Mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre and lutenist Thomas Dunford’s new album of Dowland and Purcell with the Jupiter ensemble is very much a ‘family’ affair, as they tell Mark Seow ...