Western Classical Music

See the world of classical music in an entirely new light. Using pie charts, Venn diagrams and other clever graphics, the team behind Classic FM re...

Classic FM's Big Book of Classical Music is a fully illustrated book detailing each day of the year in classical music - the perfect coffee table...

Remembered in his native Ireland primarily as a harpsichordist and interpreter of Bachs music, and in the UK as a conductor of the ground-shaking e...

The Venezuelan youth orchestra program known as El Sistema has attracted much attention internationally, partly via its flagship orchestra, The Sim...

Music at German Courts serves to illustrate the extraordinary diversity of eighteenth-century German court music establishments without losing sigh...

Over the years, many examination pieces have captured the imagination of teachers and students, but the stars of past syllabuses are often forgotte...

Do you know a capella from zarzuela, or your major from your minor? Can you distinguish between a serenade and a symphony? If you only have 30 seco...

Performers include: Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholars Singers Dietrich Fischer-Diesk...

Trace the history of classical music from its birth through the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods and right up to the present day. Packed ful...

After a brief and disastrous Resident Poet episode, Stockwell Park Orchestra is invited to take part in a TV competition for classical music. For a...

Daniel Albright was one of the preeminent scholars of musical and literary modernism, leaving behind a rich body of work before his untimely passin...

A unique Companion to J S Bach's iconic Cello Suites from internationally-renowned cellist Steven Isserlis.'Isserlis is the master of the material,...

***With a foreword by Alexander Armstrong.Do you know your Chopin from your Schubert? Your concerto from your cadenza?The Classic FM Puzzle Book 36...

Few composers have enjoyed such critical acclaim or longevity as Jean Sibelius, who died in 1957 aged 91. Always more than simply a Finnish natio...

Were all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethov...

A masterly account of a fraught relationship between Schoenberg (the teacher) and Wellesz (his pupil), set against the intellectual and musical cur...