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Throughout the season Classical Live features highlights from the BBC Proms, the world’s greatest classical music festival.

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

Bruch's Violin Concerto No.1, a mainstay of the violin repertoire, is one of the great works of the Romantic era, and a ...

Brahms lived and worked under the shadow of Beethoven throughout his career. Brahms was very conscious of this – indeed, it was one of the main reasons why he took so long to compose a symphony – and ...

Don't miss the HSO's final program of the season, including performances from this year's concerto winners. Tickets to the April 18 show are free to students. "To have the opportunity to play a solo ...

Classical music meets Halloween and the paranormal Thursday night when the National Symphony Orchestra plays the Schumann Violin Concerto, a work buried for nearly a century and recovered — or so the ...

Seen as one of his best pieces, Bruch composed this famous violin work in 1866 - and set himself up as something of a one-hit wonder. This former No. 1 in the Classic FM Hall of Fame has fallen from ...

These concertos of baroque composer Josef Antonín Guretzky (1709-1769) are a joy! Picking a composer out of Moravian obscurity, the “Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen” have put down world ...

Wynton Marsalis' rare musical versatility has long been a beacon in the worlds of jazz and classical music. Now the Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer brings those ...