Bach wrote a fair amount of music involving the flute. Later in the hour, we'll be in concert with the Chicago Chamber Musicians, who play Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, which features the flute ...

Every week, Classic FM presenter and music expert David Mellor reviews the best new releases and re-issues from the world of classical music. This week, David picks out Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Baroque ...

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, led by the charismatic Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki, will perform the world premiere of GRAMMY Award-nominated American composer Lowell Liebermann's Flute Concerto ...

It is a nice peg on which to hang a programme—that of music by an employer (Frederick the Great of Prussia) and three of his employees every item of which was first played by the King himself. Quantz ...

When Marin Alsop slipped on a bathroom floor last month in Brazil, injuring her hand and forcing her to cancel her conducting duties at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, people went, “Uh oh ...

Thomas Carlyle’s six-volume biography of Frederick the Great presents the King of Prussia as a military campaigner who heroically created the moral culture of a nation but also had “a fine sensibility ...

The Vivaldi flute concerto discovered last year in the National Archives of Scotland is now available for download, having been recorded by Gramophone Award-winning ensemble La Serenissima and Baroque ...

Mozart's concertos are still some of the most widely performed - horn concertos, clarinet concertos, violin concertos, piano concertos... They're all as popular as they ever were, but why? Showing off ...

Flautist Juliette Hurel is a solid player with vibrant musicality. She had a challenging evening with Mozart's Concerto No 1 in G and Carl Nielsen's Flute Concerto. The Mozart piece was graceful but ...

In theory this disc should be an absolute winner. The works for flute and clarinet are the only two concertos Nielsen lived to complete from a plan to compose one for each of the members of the ...

Musician Anna Cooper has a lot to be proud of after being named the winner of the 2016 University of Auckland Graduation Gala Concerto Competition, with a performance described by the judges as ...