"Drastic Symphonies" offers a fresh perspective on Def Leppard's high-energy tracks, refined by the harmonious sounds of ...

We think these are the greatest symphonies of all time – the biggest, most emotional, most impressive and plain-old flabbergasting works ever written. Nothing beats the sound of an orchestra ...

Ahead of a new four-part series exploring how the symphony has shaped our history and identity, Mark Elder choses the form's five key works It's thanks to Haydn that the symphony became the place ...

Def Leppard announced the release of Drastic Symphonies, an album that presents some of the band’s classic songs as classical pieces. The band has “deconstructed and rebuilt not only some of their ...

Most would agree that Vagn Holmboe (1909-1996) was Denmark's greatest symphonist after Carl Nielsen and Rued Langgaard. So it's something of an occasion that the three chamber symphonies from the ...

The symphony after World War II appeared to be headed for extinction as composers took divergent paths to experiment with musical language and forms. But the evidence of recent decades shows that the ...

The conductor and his orchestra express the transcendental immensity of Ives, especially in a glorious Fourth Symphony Before normal concert life ground to a halt in March, one of Gustavo Dudamel’s ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the mid-20th century Florence Price was a high-profile trailblazer. As a woman composer and an ...