Timeline: history of classical music

Composers

Discover The composers

Their lives and their music

Composers

Artists

Explore The artists

Who's who in classical music

Conductor leading multicolor orchestra

Guides

Paul Morley 004 Toying with the piano

Prepared piano star Hauschka and Paul Morley explore the instrument

Prepared piano

Glossary

Glossary

Your essential guide to all Classical terms

Bubbles coming out of a guitar

Opera studio: Specialist department at a conservatoire or affliated to an opera house dedicated to the advanced training of opera singers or the development of…

More highlights

Deconstructed Scherzo-Toccata for accordion

Ksenija Sidorova explains one of her favourite virtuoso works

Ksenija Sidorova deconstructed

What is a conductor for?

The OAE explains all

Herbert von Karajan

Instrument Guide

Evelyn Glennie; a personal tour

Close up of aluphone percussion instrument

Spotlight Learning music

Why everyone should learn to play an instrument, and how to do it

Little boy sat on a chair infront of a piano

Art of Fear

This weekend at The Rest is Noise

JEWISH PRISONERS AT AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP 1940s

Guide The accordion

Get inside an unusual instrument

x-ray accordion

Spotlight The Maestro

It's all about the conductor

It's all about the conductor

Spotlight Percussion

Sinfini's percussion focus

Hindu god playing many percussion instruments

Spotlight Opera

Where to get started

Illustration of a lady singing opera

Spotlight Baroque

It's in the air, so join in!

Baroque

Comparing notes

Which Beethoven Fifth is for me?

person writing on sheet music

Comparing Notes

Rachmaninov Concerto No.2

Drawing of music teacher and student

Podcast

Interviews on The Rite of Spring

FRANCE - CIRCA 1965: 'The Rite of Spring' of Igor Stravinski. Cyril Atanasoff, dancer. Maurice Bejart's choregraphy. Opera de Paris, April 1965.

Comparing Notes

Podcast of Elgar's Cello Concerto

person writing on sheet music

Composercast Wagner

Richard Wagner, opera supremo

Richard Wagner line drawing

Composercast Britten

A 20th-century genius

Benjamin Britten line drawing

Composercast Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi the Italian hero

Giuseppe Verdi line drawing

Composercast Beethoven

How he shook up classical music

Ludwig van Beethoven line drawing

Deconstructed

Joby Burgess demonstrates

Joby Burgess deconstructing his performance

Deconstructed Beethoven

HJ Lim analyses the 'Pathétique'

HJ Lim behind a piano talking about Beethoven

Deconstructed Debussy

Noriko Ogawa on Feux d'artifice

Noriko deconstructing Debussy's Fireworks

Deconstructed

Daniel Hope demonstrates

Daniel Hope talking with violin in hand