There is a great deal about minimalism in this calming documentary about the late musician Conor Walsh. Over a series of interviews the softly spoken subject explains, in appropriately halting ...

Image: Oliver Reed as Debussy with Audrey Searle as Madame Vasnier. The Debussy Film was first shown as a Monitor Special on 18 May 1965. It was directed by Ken Russell and highly anticipated after ...

Michael Berkeley's guest is the psychologist and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, who is fascinated by the way our brains respond to music. Show more Daniel Levitin is a psychologist and neuroscientist ...

One encounters a full Book of Claude Debussy’s Préludes infrequently in concert, the piano works usually played in small groupings. Rarer still is the opportunity to hear all 24 of Debussy’s Préludes ...

On Sunday, French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet returned to Orchestra Hall with an invitation to wade in a single great work: Claude Debussy’s Préludes. Considering the Préludes a “work” is a ...

The first of January ushers in a new year, a new month and new entries to the list of works in the public domain. While 2024 saw many popular intellectual properties lose copyright protection — ...

On the face of it, this seems unlikely. If you look at a sheet of music it is, by necessity, absolutely precise. There is no blurring of line, no smudging, no clouding over detail, no vague shapes in ...

We listen to a lot of classical music when we're testing hi-fi and headphones. Perhaps not as much as our high-expectations parents or old music teachers would ideally like, but stick a glass to the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The real marvel of classical music is that it's such a nebulous term. Classical is generally used ...

This week's Feature Album sees superstar Australian soprano Siobhan Stagg team up with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Jaime Martín in the MSO's first release on its new ...