A piano sounds in the darkness, the orchestra surges and swells – yes, there’s a reason why Rachmaninoff’s Second is probably the world’s favourite piano …

It’s almost the end of the week, so unwind the way string players do – with the long smiling melodies and freewheeling humour of Brahms’s First String Sextet.

The award-winning concert tour, featuring stunning orchestral suites based on the music from video games FINAL FANTASY VI, VII and X, will make its first visit …

Mozart loved to direct his music while he played it – and that’s exactly what Julian Rachlin will be doing today, as together with viola player Sarah McElravy …

The birdsong of Spring, the icy shiver of Winter: baroque music doesn’t get more tuneful – or vivid - than Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.

Sex, drink and roasted swans – choral music isn’t meant to be this much fun! But the medieval monks who wrote the words to Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana don’t seem …

One cello sounds gorgeous. So imagine the mouthwatering sonic decliciousness when a whole team of them play in close harmony.

Don’t be misled by its title: Pathetique means “full of feeling”, and no symphony wears its heart quite so passionately on its sleeve as Tchaikovsky’s Sixth.