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Remember the "Paul is dead" conspiracy theories of the late 1960s?Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony has some mystery about it, with some claiming that it's a…

We’re going to begin with some music by Clara Schumann this week before we switch to the more frequently heard music of her husband, Robert. Then we’ll pursue the work of a small circle of their friends and we’ll see where that round robin leads.

The answer could cut the number of calories and fat listed on Nutella's nutritional labels in half, because of differences between the government's standard sizes.

We’ll look at Peter Tchaikovsky’s last major work this Sunday. Then we’ll skip over to Italy to see what Giuseppe Verdi was doing at around the same time.

Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony wasn't an immediate success. The critics largely panned it, like they did the First Piano and Violin Concerti. But time was…

We'll hear Beethoven at his most pastoral this week as we reach Number Six in our cycle of the nine symphonies in piano transcription. Then we'll spend…

We've got a set of music from seven less-well-known composers, born in the second half of the last century, with seven different ideas about new…

At first Gustav Mahler was happy to be appointed Director of the Vienna Imperial Opera. After few seasons of dealing with hot-house-orchid singers,…

In 1936, Carl Orff set two-dozen poems from a 13th-century manuscript to music evocative of the Middle Ages. We'll look at his Carmina Burana on this…

The critics continued to pan his technique, but the audiences came to love Tchaikovsky's melodies, and by 1888, he was among the most famous composers in…