Matthew Best, born 6 February 1957, was a versatile and celebrated figure in British classical music, making lasting contributions to opera, choral music, and education throughout his career. He ...

'Father' Willis in Kilburn: an outstanding instrument is restored to match the glory of its surroundings | Joanna Marsh: the composer on exciting new commissions for St John’s and Chichester The ...

This week we feature new recordings of Elgar's The Kingdom, Scriabin's Vers la flamme and symphonies by Schumann and Bruckner ...

In 2007, Yevgeny Sudbin released an album of music by Alexander Scriabin. Reviewing it in Gramophone, Bryce Morrison described it as a 'disc in a million'. Now, Sudbin has returned to the composer for ...

David Matthews’s new edition of Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony is a triumph of clear thinking, meticulous research, and deep musical insight Sop & Bar soli, SATB chorus and large orchestra: Stainer ...

The ampersand rather skates past the boldness of pulling together a mass by Philippe de Monte (b1521) and pieces by Ciprianode Rore, Ippolito Baccusi and Tiburtio Massaino, with a setting from ...

Explicitly counterpoised to the Latin Requiem, Brahms’s first great work was intended as an act of what Wolfgang Sandberger calls ‘civic consolation’. Its first performance in Bremen, still incomplete ...

Holly Baker meets previous choristers to learn about the subsequent direction of their lives and the impact of chorister education My choral journey began at school in Northumberland. Our headmaster’s ...

These final volumes from OUP’s hymn-based series offer an impressively broad, practical, and musically rewarding resource for liturgical players Rebecca Groom te Velde and Alan Bullard, eds., Vols 8 ...

Paul Hale talks to Daniel Spencer, principal of the London organ builder Bishop & Son, about existing historic instruments and current projects It may have come as a surprise to many when the late ...