Pick of the Week

The esteemed Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki died this morning after a long illness. He was 86. Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki forced

They are seriously bueno, and they are the frotnline of the war on Coronavirus. Coro Municipal de Córdoba Dirección: Esteban

Welcome to the 51st work in the Slipped Disc/Idagio Beethoven Edition Piano concerto no 2, opus 19 (1795)  The second concerto predates

From the great port city’s annual festival of Irish ballads. You won’t forget this.

Musicians in the National Symphony Orchestra will stop being paid from April 3. They heard by email that Kennedy Centrer

The singer, who is suffering from Coronavirus, has been hospitalised in Acapulco, Mexico. A spokesperson said his condition was stable.

Damian Thompson, in his Spectator podcast, talks to Kansas City’s Opus 76 string quartet about the Thanksgiving slow movement of

Brilliant realisation by Shakeup Music. Every single bird gets an end-credit. Watch.  

Welcome to the 50th work in the Slipped Disc/Idagio Beethoven Edition Fourth Symphony, opus 60 (1808) Trapped between the enormous statements of

Meet Peter Whelan, artistic director of the Irish Baroque Orchestra.   Well, someone had to.  

There are many versions of W B Yeats’s poem Down by the Salley Gardens, from classic to rock. I give