Semyon Bychkov’s Mahler symphony cycle with the Czech Philharmonic is meticulous, imaginative and deserves to be placed alongside the very best sets ...

Conductor John Storgårds pairs Shostakovich’s radical youthful 2nd symphony with the more assured 5th, in performances that emphasise clarity over drama ...

We think these are the greatest symphonies of all time – the biggest, most emotional, most impressive and plain-old flabbergasting works ever written. Nothing beats the sound of an orchestra ...

Franz Joseph Haydn never gets the attention he deserves. His friend Mozart and his student Beethoven tend to soak up most of the spotlight, but neither of those guys is called the “father” of anything ...

Mahler's song "Ging heut' morgens" later appeared as a purely instrumental theme in his Symphony No. 1 (Thomas Hampson, baritone). Gustav Mahler died 97 years ago today — May 18, 1911. Today, he's ...

The Mendelssohn String symphonies have been fairly well served on record, both quantitatively and quality-wise[1], but ultimately they never quite sounded like youthful Mendelssohnian masterworks but, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The odds were against Louise Farrenc ever making her name as a composer of symphonies. This was not just ...

Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews biographies of two musicians who transcended jazz, and to whom recognition was slow in coming: James P. Johnson, born in 1894, and Alice Coltrane, born in 1937.

Def Leppard announced the release of Drastic Symphonies, an album that presents some of the band’s classic songs as classical pieces. The band has “deconstructed and rebuilt not only some of their ...

Here's what to expect from Moonlit Symphonies and Celestial Nights at Masungi Georeserve. Masungi Georeserve needs no introduction (but you'll get one anyway). Masungi is a conservation area and ...