
Gavin Higgins: It’s a clarinet concerto. It’s just a very big clarinet concerto.

Tenebrae began with no plan, no name and a dinner Nigel Short tried to get out of. Twenty-five years on, the choir marks its anniversary with concerts and a new album, The Journey.

The writer behind The Cross-Eyed Pianist and Meet the Artist websites, explores the experience of listening in her new book, ‘Facing the Music’.

Does the world need another recording of the Elgar Violin Concerto? Yes, it does. Especially one that celebrates a lifelong musical partnership.

Core Radio 3 is down on its previous quarter, though its ‘brand extension’ sees a modest increase.

A scrapbook in sound: voices, reflections and field recordings from Three Choirs Festival 2026 in Gloucester — a postcard from two life-enhancing days.

Guy Johnston on Britten, the Proms, and neuroscience

Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre isn’t a name many will recognise — despite an opera that reached the Paris stage in 1694, two books of biblical cantatas published three years apart, in 1708 and 1711, and a career that ran for decades either side of those dates.

Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre isn’t a name many will recognise — despite an opera that reached the Paris stage in 1694, two books of biblical cantatas published three years apart, in 1708 and 1711, and a career that ran for decades either side of those dates.

Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre isn’t a name many will recognise — despite an opera that reached the Paris stage in 1694, two books of biblical cantatas published three years apart, in 1708 and 1711, and a career that ran for decades either side of those dates.