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Shostakovich was most definitely a light-and-shade composer. On the one hand, we have the intense, expansive orchestral works, full of grand political gestures and complex musical ideas. On the other, ...

Meet the Mozart family - the people that were closest to Wolfgang himself throughout his life. In 1756 Leopold Mozart was 37, his wife one year younger and they had daughter who was not yet five. The ...

String Quartet No.2 in D major (3) Alexander Borodin Download 'String Quartet No.2 in D major (3)' on iTunes ...

The Hobbit’ actor Richard Armitage presents a brand-new series on classical music and theatre on Sunday evenings.

A light music classic, well-known to veteran radio listeners. Ronald Binge was a British composer and arranger of light music. This is probably his best known composition. When it was first played by ...

It's iconic, it's British, it's a seafaring classic - Ronald Binge's Sailing By is everything light music should be. This iconic British tune was composed in 1963 by Ronald Binge. It's one of his many ...

Musicians are a mischievous lot – as evidenced by the nickname ascribed to John Rutter’s A Gaelic Blessing. No sooner had it been composed in 1978 than it was being referred to as ‘A Garlic Dressing’.

Howard Shore’s epic Middle-earth music is voted No.1 in the Classic FM Movie Music Hall of Fame 2026. Canadian composer ...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. New York's Musical Courier was not so far from the mark when it reported in 1897: ...