Apple Music Classical provides curated access to a range of classical and classical-inspired music, and it can now be downloaded from the App Store globally. Apple purchased Primephonic in 2021 with ...

Musicians might draw on memories of the past as they improvise something new. Amy Beach says she remembered a time hearing waltzes in Vienna as she created her Five Improvisations for piano. Step into ...

Lots of Ravel’s orchestral pieces (including the two just mentioned) started out as piano pieces which he later orchestrated. But the piano versions are more than sketches for later expansion – works ...

Less is more in an enchanted evening of lovelorn Brahms with Nicky Spence and co; and Voces8’s latest virtual festival opens in style with Jonathan Dove Brahms was unlucky in love but poured his ...

That these sonatas were originally composed by Bach for flute is surely of no consequence; Michala Petri’s affectionate, idiomatic performances on alto and tenor recorders convince from the outset.

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