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Walton's Cello Concerto: a guide to Walton's cello masterpiece and its best recordings
Jo Talbot introduces Walton’s most beguiling yet underestimated scores for cello, and finds the recordings which do it justice
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Vienna New Year's Day Concert: the famous concert's dark beginnings
How Clemens Krauss and the Nazis set off a Vienna New Year tradition in 1939
The Star Spangled Banner lyrics: what are the words to the USA National Anthem?
Inspired by the USA's victories over the British, the Star-Spangled Banner has been the USA's official national anthem since 1931. Here are the lyrics to the famous song
Monteverdi, Claudio
Meet Monteverdi, early opera pioneer and classical music's first great dramatist
Philip Glass: Minimalism and beyond
Meet Philip Glass: so much more than a Minimalist
Ravel, Maurice
We explore the life and work of this master craftsman of French music
Felix Mendelssohn: effortlessly gifted Romantic
The ultimate child prodigy
Leonard Bernstein: composer, conductor, educator, hero
Genius of theatre and concert hall
Bartók: folk music alchemist
Hungary's genuine folk artist
Berlioz: a revolutionary Romantic with deep Classical roots
Hector Berlioz: the revival of an outlandish romantic
Samuel Barber: last great American Romantic
Stravinsky: style-conscious visionary, 20th-century composing colossus
Learn all about Igor Stravinsky, the style-conscious visionary and perhaps the 20th century's most seminal composer
Niccolò Paganini: dazzling Italian virtuoso and violin technique pioneer
One of the most dazzling musical showmen of all time, the great Italian violinist and composer Paganini cast a spell over all those who heard his music, as Julian Haylock explains
Antonín Dvořák: incomparable Czech melodist
Meet Antonín Dvořák, supreme folk and classical synthesist and perhaps the most melodic of the Late Romantics
Sibelius: authentic voice of the far North
Meet the authentic voice of the far north, Finnish composer Jean Sibelius
Christmas music origins: how did festive music start?
Roderick Swanston investigates how Christmas music started and what gives it its festive air
Best Christmas classical music
What is the perfect Christmas music to get oneself into the festive spirit? We ask ten of our writers to name the Christmas music they couldn’t imagine Yuletide without
Ludwig van Beethoven: a force of nature at the dawn of Romanticism
John Suchet profiles Ludwig van Beethoven - the composer who sparked a musical revolution
Johannes Brahms: a great Romantic
Meet Johannes Brahms, the Janus-like face of Romanticism
'Jingle Bells' lyrics: what are the words to the popular Christmas song?
'Jingle Bells' might be a Christmas classic but do you know its origins and who composed it - or even all of its lyrics?
'Away in a Manger' lyrics: what are the words to the popular Christmas carol?
The true origins of the Christmas carol 'Away in a Manger' are unknown, but it started gaining popularity in the 19th century. Here are its lyrics
'O Holy Night' lyrics: what are the words to the popular carol?
Here are both the English and French lyrics to the popular Christmas carol 'O Holy Night', which was written in 1843
The 20 best operas of all time
Are these the best operas of all time? Or have we missed your favourite?