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Classical Music

Why is classical music making a comeback?

Not the neo stuff: Is new classical music still being recorded?

Good question.

Tom Phelan
Aug 1, 2025
Igor Stravinsky - Composer - 1920's

Listen to Igor Stravinsky’s “illegal” arrangement of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’

Controversial.

Reuben Cross
Jul 19, 2025
The forgotten Charles Ives- The chaos of America's first experimentalist

The forgotten Charles Ives: The chaos of America’s first experimentalist

An “American original”.

Reuben Cross
May 13, 2025
Bent Rej - Frank Zappa

“Sad and pathetic”: Frank Zappa’s brutal takedown of classical music

If you want to break boundaries, expect resistance.

Will Howard
May 11, 2025
Erik Satie - Far Out Magazine

Erik Satie: the true godfather of ambient music

Way ahead of the curve.

Tom Phelan
Apr 21, 2025
Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci - 1506 - Louvre Museum

‘Sound of a Masterpiece’: The album helping the blind see Mona Lisa

To make and interact with art is part of what makes us human. We view it as something of a prerequisite. Something that all of…

Will Howard
Apr 8, 2025
Nina Simone - 1960s - Musician - Jean-Pierre Leloir

Why Nina Simone defined her sound as “Black classical music”

Genre-spanning approach.

Lauren Hunter
Apr 5, 2025
Bob Dylan - 1985 - Empire Burlesque

“Maybe one day”: the musical dream that Bob Dylan is yet to realise

Perhaps it’s still to come.

Lucy Harbron
Apr 2, 2025
It's the original synthesizer- Laurence Carden wants to liberate the organ - Interview - 2025

“It’s the original synthesizer”: Laurence Carden wants to liberate the organ

Introducing The Organ Collaborations Project.

Lucy Harbron
Jan 15, 2025
Why is classical music making a comeback?

‘Poeme Symphonique’: the classical symphony without instruments

Classical music like you’ve never heard it before.

Lauren Hunter
Jan 3, 2025
Samuel Beckett - 1969 - Irish Novelist

The music that inspired Samuel Beckett: “Intensity beyond anything I have ever heard”

Music always wins.

Matthew Ingate
Dec 31, 2024
David Bowie - 1970

“Nothing is simple”: The David Bowie song inspired by Tchaikovsky

“It was lots of fun to play.”

Ben Forrest
Dec 25, 2024

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