The two-time Oscar-winning director told Jonathan Ross about his approach to scoring films and working with composer Ludwig Göransson on ‘The Odyssey’. “It’s really about finding collaborators,” Nolan ...

The meditative music of American composer Philip Glass is coming to London this summer, in the West End premiere of Tao of ...

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Einaudi was taught by the avant-garde Italian composer Luciano Berio, although the music for which Einaudi has become famous couldn’t be more different from that of his teacher. Whereas Berio composed ...

Literally the hardest, hardest, hardest thing I’ve ever had to learn to do. Being in a gladiator arena or hanging from a ...

Fauré: 15 facts about the Great Composer Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) was one of the most influential of French composers, linking the end of Romanticism with the beginnings of the modern era. His ...

209 surviving church cantatas, dozens of concertos, countless organ preludes and fugues. And 20 children. J.S. Bach was a very busy man. Johann Sebastian Bach, with his wives Maria Barbara (m.

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Matthew Bourne’s dazzling ballet The Car Man returns to London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre this summer, for a strictly limited ...

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It was one of the tragedies of Mascagni’s career that although he wrote and produced 15 other operas, none came close to matching the spectacular success of Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry).

Half-Scottish, half-Italian violinist Nicola Benedetti was born in West Kilbride on 20 July 1987. Today she is one of the world’s finest and most in-demand young musicians, and director of the ...