
The women classical music forgot
Leah Broad’s Quartet restores the pioneering work and colourful lives of Britain’s finest female composers.
ByLeah Broad’s Quartet restores the pioneering work and colourful lives of Britain’s finest female composers.
ByIn his lifetime, his music was an escape from modernity – 150 years after his birth, the Russian composer bridges…
ByReleasing bowdlerised books into a predictable storm of ridicule and then making the “classic texts” available is clever business.
ByThe harpsichord “cowboy”, who died from Aids in 1989, left behind a heroic body of work.
ByThe keyboard works of The Well-Tempered Clavier sound more novel and luminous 300 years later than in their composer’s day.
ByIn the BBC podcast The Sleeping Forecast, the distinctive maritime weather report is read over classical music – with soporific…
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