PREVIEW In my new interview with Nicola Benedetti for the BBC Music Magazine August issue she explained how being a violinist prepared...

The legendary pianist, who died on Tuesday, was typically insightful and frank about fashions in string playing Photo: Regina Schmeken...

Rachel Barton Pine  has one of the most eclectic, unconventional and interesting careers of all violinists – whether playing thrash-metal...

My interview with Vilde Frang for the cover of the November issue of BBC Music Magazine has just come out, as she releases her...

Two weeks of music, sun, wine and good company in France? Yes, please! Summer festivals are one of the perks of being a classical...

OPINION: Far from its reputation as exclusive, classical music is often itself excluded from mainstream culture. As more young people...

A week in the magical musical bubble of St Endellion’s Easter Festival offered a hopeful vision of grass-roots classical music in the UK...

Two Australian orchestral violinists have found millions of fans for classical music with their hilarious and geeky videos. I went to the...

For the first stop of my Interrail trip, I make a beeline for Beethoven’s home city of Bonn and find him around every corner I love...

Artificial intelligence impersonations of human writing are very good – and that’s why this writer isn’t afraid of them There’s lots of...

With classical music forced out of the concert hall, one of the few positives of this year has been rediscovering it in the wild This...

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If music has helped you through this crisis, there are many ways to show your gratitude What has listening to classical meant to you...

In my previous article I described why and how this strange time might be a chance for musicians to start writing. This isn’t just an...

At a time of crisis for public musical life, performers can remain positive by practising a different way of communicating – with words. Elb

As research shows that young people are coming to classical music through film and club music, here‘s an article I wrote in 2018 for ISM...

The London Symphony Orchestra’s early evening concert format is a welcome development in the city’s entertainment landscape, for music...

Regina Carter started with Dont and Galamian but she only truly found her voice when she discovered jazz. She tells Ariane Todes about...

Yo-Yo Ma turns 60 on 7 October, 2015, and to celebrate one of the world's best-loved classical music heroes, here is an interview I did...

David Byrne turns 63 today, and yet he still has one of the most energetic and interesting careers of any musician anywhere in the world....