The “Enigma” Variations was written as a set of musical character sketches of Edward Elgar’s friends, with the first variation cast as a tender tribute to his wife and the finale as a rousing ...

Claude Debussy’s singular visit to Spain lasted only an hour or two, long enough to attend a bullfight. Even so, his contemporary Manuel de Falla declared Debussy’s Iberia to be more genuine than ...

Czech composer Antonin Dvorak, right, with his wife, children and friends shortly after arriving in New York in 1892. Dvorak was intrigued by America’s Black and Indigenous music. (Photo by ullstein ...

The next Fretworks program this Saturday evening will feature music with an American theme for the Memorial Day weekend, as well as music of J. S. Bach, and a guitar concerto by Ferdinando Carulli.

This year's Dvorak anniversary, the centenary of his death, has been marked generously in the concert hall - the Proms this summer were full of his music, for instance. But on disc there has been far ...

As centenaries go - and we're drowning in Tippett this year - last year's commemoration of Dvorak's death in 1904 was somewhat muted, thanks, perhaps, to the vagaries of critical taste. But there's ...

Roaming into Sunday afternoon’s San Diego Symphony concert in the (still) sensational-sounding Jacobs Music Center, I would have guessed that, if the concert satisfied, it would be because of ...

One of the many professional casualties of the lockdown was the pianist Jonathan Biss, whose Beethoven series at the Wigmore Hall skidded to a halt. But he’s very much around on CD: this record brings ...