Did you hear about Bruckner’s mania for counting?
The Austrian composer would count the bricks in walls and the leaves on the trees.
The Austrian composer would count the bricks in walls and the leaves on the trees.
Another top shelf Pelléas means it's chacun á son goût.
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The presenter of Fine Music 102.5’s In Conversation programme shares stories from the studio ahead of his milestone interview next Wednesday.
Gerhaher revisits Schubert’s lovesick cycle with stunning results.
Was the composer as miserable as his doleful music might suggest, or was he merely reflecting the fashion for melancholy that gripped the Elizabethan age?
Alamire premieres a Thomas Tallis collaboration by Royal command.
Researchers in Japan found that higher levels of testosterone in men went hand in hand with lower interest in sophisticated music.
It didn’t take much to persuade legendary pianist Emanuel Ax to come and play Mozart with the SSO. But the fact that his preparatory period would coincide with the Australian Open didn’t hurt.
A fine string quartet stretches to 70 CDs while Furtwängler makes a vinyl comeback and Kats-Chernin celebrates her 60th.
A new study has found different processes occur in the brains of classical and jazz pianists, even when playing the same music.
From chopsticks to a Guarneri, this fiddler will amaze you.
Australian compositions may not immediately spring to mind when you consider the great 20th-century symphonies but, argues Rhoderick McNeill, there is a significant body of work worth celebrating.