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Alice Zawadzki’s moving monodrama based on a poem by her grandmother is given depth and substance by the Manchester Collective in a perfect marriage of music and theatre<br>

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

For a brief period in the early 20th century, Ukrainian composers put a national twist on modernism, free from Russian or Soviet regulation.

The Bard Music Festival returns for its 32nd season this August, with an intensive two-week exploration of “Rachmaninoff and His World.” In twelve themed concert programs, Bard examines Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), perhaps the last great exponent of Russian Romanticism, who nevertheless embodied many contradictions.

The Nash Ensemble are the ideal advocates for Bruch’s chamber music; and violist Timothy Ridout takes on an entire ballet and song cycle

• Dec 3, 2020 Courtesy / David Zentz In todays Sound Perimeter, University of Arkansas Music Professor Lia Uribe brings us several pieces of music composed for string instruments. They include: Nocturne, the third movement of Alexander Borodins Second String Quartet as performed by the U of A Department of Music String Quartet, Takashi Yoshimatsus "And the Birds Are Still...", and Arvo Parts "Spiegel im Spiegel" from "Smile" as performed by Anne Akiko Meyers. © ...

• Dec 3, 2020 Courtesy / David Zentz In todays Sound Perimeter, University of Arkansas Music Professor Lia Uribe brings us several pieces of music composed for string instruments. They include: Nocturne, the third movement of Alexander Borodins Second String Quartet as performed by the U of A Department of Music String Quartet, Takashi Yoshimatsus "And the Birds Are Still...", and Arvo Parts "Spiegel im Spiegel" from "Smile" as performed by Anne Akiko Meyers.

FRIENDS gather of an evening to witness the once-in-nine-yearly flowering of an exotic cactus. While they’re waiting for this miraculous night bloom, they keep themselves entertained in time-honoured tradition of telling heroic tales and reciting epic poems. The last recitation is the Gurresange – a grand tragedy of illicit love and jealous fury and the transcendental powers of nature to resurrect the human spirit. It goes something like this. Back in 14th century Denmark, King Waldemar...

• Dec 3, 2020 Courtesy / David Zentz In todays Sound Perimeter, University of Arkansas Music Professor Lia Uribe brings us several pieces of music composed for string instruments. They include: Nocturne, the third movement of Alexander Borodins Second String Quartet as performed by the U of A Department of Music String Quartet, Takashi Yoshimatsus "And the Birds Are Still...", and Arvo Parts "Spiegel im Spiegel" from "Smile" as performed by Anne Akiko Meyers.