Brace yourself for the sound of classical music lovers grinding their teeth. The revered German classical recording company DG, which was once home to luminaries such as Herbert von Karajan, the ...

Do you remember the 1988 Bobby McFerrin song “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”? The extraordinarily talented and versatile musician’s ...

This might sound ridiculous, but if you’d walked into a record shop in 1955 on the hunt for new music that was radical and unusual, you might well have been handed a copy of an unknown piece of ...

Think of musical perfection and you think of JS Bach. Every note perfectly placed, every harmonic sequence pleasing in its logic, every extended structure immaculately organised. Crucially, Bach's ...

It's a brave new musical world. Between downloads, iPods, music sharing websites and the good old CD, we have more easy access to the songs and symphonies we love than ever before. In this visit to ...

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, ...

No sooner had the French-Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux made a superb San Francisco Symphony debut in Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" last month than this Vivaldi recital disc showed up in the ...

Antonio Vivaldi, “Sinkovsky Plays & Sings Vivaldi”, La Voce Strumentale, Dmitry Sinkovsky (violin, countertenor, conductor), naïve Bird-trills, little shivers, subaltern voices, creaks and accents: ...

Antonio Vivaldi was one of the Baroque period's most gifted and prolific composers. But his life wasn't just about the music - find out about the women, the priesthood and how he died alone. A ...