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Inspired by the big screen release of Chevalier, Limelight trawls the streamers and DVD shelves for the best cinematic explorations of the lives of classical music greats.

Versatile singer whose roles ranged from Wagner and Janáček to Dido in the first complete performance of Berlioz’s Les Troyens

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Bach, Brahms, Beethoven... and now Blanchett. As Tár arrives in cinemas, we pick some crescendoes from cinema’s long love affair with classical music.

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Two little-known, one-act operas by Delius and Puccini are well worth catching

"He's a moody old man/ song of summer in his hand/ he's a moody old man." So begins Kate Bush's "Delius (Song of Summer)," a...

Richard Stoker’s many works included an opera,a piano concerto and song cycles GillStoker Fri 14 May 2021 13.36 EDT Last modified on Fri 14 May 2021 14.49 EDT My husband, Richard Stoker, who has died aged 82, was a composer, teacher and actor, and a colourful figure in British musical life for the past 60 years. Richard was born in Castleford, Yorkshire, to Bower Morrell Stoker, an engineer and inventor, and Winifred (nee Harling). He went to Breadalbane House school and then Castleford boys�...

| 03/31/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "With no composer was Sir Thomas Beecham more closely associated than with Frederick Delius: Beecham made his first 78RPM documentation of Delius in the middle 1920s just after the invention of the electrical process; he recorded Delius throughout the period of electrical stylus engraving, continued to do so in the "hi-fi" years of the monophonic long-playing record, and made what were probably the first stereo recordings of Delius in the late 1950s and early 19...