But this has been a year above all for the best of festival planning, the sort where you feel enriched by connecting threads.

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Announced earlier this year, the four-concert series is a co-production led by BBC Arts, in partnership with WDR (Germany), ...

The BBC has unveiled a programme of classical music as part of its “virtual festival of the arts” amid the coronavirus lockdown. The corporation said its Culture In Quarantine will feature classical ...

Award-winning classical music broadcaster Sir Humphrey Burton has died at the age of 94. He presented the BBC's Omnibus and ...

This is the first major review of classical music at the BBC in a generation. This new strategy is bold, ambitious, and good for the sector and for audiences who love classical music. — Charlotte ...

The language of classical music has got itself into a fix. Open any concert programme and you will find lengths of text poring over every detail of a movement; here the clarinet comes in with a bassy ...

A moving collection of vocal works, including world premiere recordings of music by the eminent Hungarian composer Gyorgy ...

The BBC has unveiled a programme of classical music as part of its “virtual festival of the arts” amid the coronavirus lockdown. The corporation said its Culture In Quarantine will feature classical ...