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François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles’ period-instrument recording of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony looks set to bring about a renewed understanding of this music, finds Hugo Shirley

Conductor Andrew Davis and warm-toned soloist James Ehnes vividly connect Berg’s early music to his later scores and the composers who were his models

The classical music station is a major success story, yet it also divides opinion. Here, two Telegraph writers go head to head

Yannick Nézet-Séguin ensured that Price’s First Symphony was worth hearing, and there was much to admire in Lisa Batiashvili’s Szymanowski

Festival Music

Catch up on your favourite BBC radio show from your favourite DJ right here, whenever you like. Listen without limits with BBC Sounds.

Homage, reference, quotation, imitation, influence, borrowing, debt, plagiarism. These all lie along a spectrum of possibilities whereby one composer refers to the music of another. Saturday and Sunday’s concerts at

On Friday and Saturday, Tanglewood will hold celebrations for two maestros of modern show business: Stephen Sondheim and John Williams, both American composers, one for stage and the other for

Emulating Brahms himself with an orchestra of fewer than 50 players, these fresh, engaging recordings show that less can mean a lot more

Romantic favourites served with flair and care. Classical music review by Boyd Tonkin