For decades, Éliane Radigue has created a great deal of slow, very minimal, mostly electronic music.

A moment in “O Come, All Ye Faithful” is so popular, it’s printed on T-shirts. But it’s also symbolic, and important to music history.

Sarah Connolly on why she’s heading up a high-profile cultural project funded by a regime she once described as “murdering autocrats stuck in a time warp.”

A rising star of sad-girl pop talks disability, public personae, and just going for it.

Young Norwegian Tabita Berglund delivered breakneck Beethoven as well as a Golijov tango and a poised Siegfried Idyll

How the Chair of Arts Council England threatened to cut £3.2 million of Welsh National Opera funding after music director Tomáš Hanus spoke out about the company’s financial difficulties

A labor dispute over live music encapsulates the pressures on the UK classical music scene in the wake of severe funding cuts.

He’s self-released more than 60 searing albums – some with only a single copy – made with instruments including his late wife’s jewellery. On a drive through northern moorlands, he explains his...

In Britain and Ireland, a series of recent projects show the rich possibilities when disability and neurodiversity are considered in the creative process.

It’s been 33 years since the last Prom dedicated to brass band music, while Gavin Higgins’ concerto for Brass band and orchestra is the first Proms commission of its kind. It’s time to forget that...

Much like Harrison Birtwistle, I feel like I’m always writing the same piece, albeit one that’s more wordy, more political, and much more depressing. Following the lead of Arts Council England, who...

The UK contemporary classical label values minimalism and intimacy in the music it champions.

Cate Blanchett film Tár shows how damaging a maniacal conductor can be – but, as musicians explain, orchestras are riven with other serious structural issues

This online community has been documenting the weirdest McDonald’s restaurants in the world.

‘Last Days’, the Royal Opera’s world premiere, draws on the life of the late Nirvana frontman

Nicola Benedetti is the first Scotland native and the first woman to serve as director of the storied Edinburgh International Festival.

“Igor Levit’s career is a stark demonstration of the dissolving of boundaries between art and commerce, journalism and public relations,” wrote Hartmut Welscher in an article for VAN in 2020. One can...

The double handclap – most powerfully deployed in Patrice Rushen’s Forget Me Nots – is now a staple of pop thanks to Dua Lipa and more. Its practitioners explain why it’s still so catchy

Currently, Laurence Osborn is moving house, from Notting Hill (West London) to Notting Hill (West London). We meet for coffee on Gloucester Road (West London) in an hour squeezed between cardboard...

The 81-year-old who slapped a singer insists therapy has changed him. But convincing his peers is hard

Unpaid time spent at work while not working is a ubiquitous feature of the gig economy. And, how we think about it has huge implications for the future of…

A labor dispute over live music encapsulates the pressures on the UK classical music scene in the wake of severe funding cuts.

It’s hard to decide if one should be envious of Michael Owen in 2016.

Despite benefiting somewhat from the buzz surrounding the London-centered UK jazz sound, the atmosphere in the North-East is rarefied.