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

Calling all film score fans! The Classic FM Movie Music Hall of Fame 2026 is now open… and we need your votes. Whether it’s a ...

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 ...

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

As a nine-year-old boy Antonin Dvořák became intoxicated with the sight, sound and smell of steam locomotives when a newly opened railway line from Prague to Kralupy passed through his hometown of ...

1. Hearing music from the womb Maxim Vengerov was born into a musical family on 20 August 1974 in Novosibirsk, Siberia. His mother sang and conducted, and his father played oboe in an orchestra. Maxim ...

The Film: The Oscar winning 1986 film tells the story of a Spanish Jesuit priest who goes into the South American jungle to build a mission and convert a community of Guarani indians whilst fighting ...

10. The War of the Romantics The so-called War of the Romantics was basically a musical argument between composers like Wagner and Liszt, who represented a more radical approach to music, and more ...

“I’m a composer in search of oblivion; I’m always slightly ashamed to admit I compose.” So said one of the most brilliant Russian scientists of his generation, for whom composing was only a hobby.

Jane Jones revisits some pure entertainment from Handel. I have been wondering lately how much of Handel’s popular and accomplished pieces now suffer from a casual familiarity which blunts our ...