As usual, my retrospective list of the “best” classical and opera offerings of ... Beyoncé trilogy will conclude with an opera. I’m very invested in being right about this.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites. 1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the ...

Gabriela Ortiz, the Crossing, Víkingur Ólafsson and Karen Slack are among this year’s cohort of Grammy-winning classical ...

Cantatas are very similar ... of the most famous classical pieces. One of the best-known is Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. It opens with one of the most well-known themes in music history and has ...

They valued my education very highly, in a traditional way ... "Wherever I play, I always hope to perform the best of classical music," he says.

Some incredibly talented performers visited us through the year, from Bill Bailey to Maxim Vengerov And our very own ABC Jazz ... Bailey shared his love of classical music and his prodigious ...