Some like their Brahms thick and dark. Others, well, will like what we get here, a more transparent, less granitic take on four of the most-recorded works in the orchestral repertoire. Michael ...

A big week for Finnish music and musicians led by Kaija Saariaho’s powerful opera about a school shooting, and a thrilling Bartok performance As if immobilised by an alien force, the audience scarcely ...

A wedding is in full swing. The bride is all smiles. The groom looks distracted. His parents watch proceedings with a sense of concern. Almost simultaneously we see students in a school – scared, ...

"It is as if many people from different walks of life were speaking, each in a different way," is William Bolcom's description of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, and of his huge work based ...

Weinberg was a Polish Jew who spent most of his life in Moscow, and, depending where we look, we find Polish, Jewish and Russian influences. He was a close friend of Shostakovich, but the closer you ...