When motion pictures were born, classical music was the ... For these, the director called on two pieces by the greatest ...

The chorus and orchestra dramatically shift between piano and fortissimo passages of music, guaranteed to grab the attention of any audience. Outside of the concert hall, ‘O Fortuna’ became the UK’s ...

Ravel’s solo piano works, choral pieces by David Lang and Palestrina, and miniatures written for the pianist Adam Tendler are among the highlights.

Classical music on ... musically—chamber and vocal music supplementing the better-known orchestral and piano works—with more than one account of several pieces. Ives’s thorny scores ...

The rigid forms of classical ... popular as pieces of stand-alone orchestral music that evoked anything from a painting or poem to a feeling of nationalistic fervour. The Romantic era gave birth to ...

The first might be the most famous tune ever written. Everyone knows this one as “Pomp and Circumstance.” However, it is only the first of six pomp and circumstance marches written by Edward Elgar.