Gabriel Fauré’s Second Piano Quartet was NOT the product of a commission. It seems that he was just interested in exploring the possibilities of the piano quartet format, and perhaps to seize the ...

Florence Price had been composing for many years when she entered her music into different categories of a 1932 music composition competition. This proved a turning point for her. She won multiple ...

This essay originally appeared on the blog Scanning the Dial and is republished here with permission of the author. We often say that radio is one of the most intimate of all media. Classical radio, ...

Their soothing tones and hypnotic arpeggios amass gigantic listening figures on ‘chill’ Spotify playlists, but composers such as Nils Frahm are shunned by the classical world Pitch darkness. Then a ...