And yet, as Alberga explains in her recent BBC Radio 3 documentary A History of Black Classical Music, there are references to black musicians in Europe going all the way back to the 12th century.

Go see live classical music performances in your area. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, compares to the live experience. It will ...

Do you think classical music is too complex to understand? With a little mindfulness, listening to music can be an easy ...

The Victorian era saw a proliferation of classical music organisations, beginning with the Philharmonic Society, 1813, and the Royal Academy of Music, 1822, both keenly promoting Beethoven's music.

The music of Rosemary Brown, a British musician and self-presented homemaker, demonstrates specific knowledge which far ...

For centuries the world of classical music has been a somewhat one-sided story, with some brilliant music written by Black composers being wrongly neglected. October is Black History Month, and this ...

Despite this, or rather because of this, he was able to write some of the most beautiful pieces of classical music ever written. His Nachtstück was composed in truly gruesome circumstances. He had ...

A series of films for Key Stage 2 pupils about the history of western classical music. Presented by Naomi Wilkinson and a stop-motion puppet called Ludwig van Offbeaten. Naomi and Ludwig chart the ...

An unknown waltz by Chopin has been found. By Javier C. Hernández I’m a reporter covering classical music, opera and dance. As The Times’s classical music reporter, I don’t often get ...