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Classical music reveals itself through familiarity, not theory. Repeated listening trains the ear, deepens emotional connection, and builds understanding over time, proving that attentive return matters far more than technical knowledge.
Music Education
A clear and practical guide to preparing for a music conservatory audition, covering repertoire choices, practice strategies, musicianship, and mental readiness, with insights into what audition panels truly listen for.
Know Your Composer
Haydn’s “Clock” Symphony blends wit and architectural mastery, turning a simple ticking rhythm into a meditation on time, Enlightenment order, and public listening in late eighteenth-century London.
Music Education
Introducing children to classical music works best when it begins with curiosity rather than instruction. Through listening, stories, and live experiences, classical music can become a source of joy, imagination, and lasting attention.
Opinion
In a world driven by speed and distraction, classical music continues to offer something rare: deep attention, meaningful silence, emotional privacy, and a relationship with time that rewards patience rather than urgency.
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A postponed anniversary trip becomes a reflective journey through Vienna, tracing Beethoven’s restless life, his many homes, and the music written there, while walking the paths that inspired one of history’s greatest composers.
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A reflective exploration of Christmas music that resists spectacle, tracing a quieter tradition of sacred listening where stillness, restraint, and inward attention reveal the season’s deeper meanings.
Ukrainian organist Dariia Lytvishko discusses her debut NAXOS album Toccatas and Meditations, the enduring allure of the French organ tradition, and how she bridges history, emotion, and innovation to bring the instrument to new audiences worldwide.
Winner of the Leeds and Montréal competitions, pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko discusses his NAXOS debut of Soler’s sonatas, his formative influences, and the artistic journeys that continue to shape his rapidly ascending career.
International pianist and pedagogue Penelope Roskell discusses her ‘Essential Piano Technique’ series, offering insights on injury prevention, artistry, and nurturing confident young pianists through imaginative teaching methods that blend technique and musicality from the start.
Ronald Perlwitz, Head of Music at the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, shares his vision for fostering musical innovation rooted in tradition and shaping cultural exchange through performance, education, and policy.
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Classical music need not be intimidating. This guide shows how to build your first playlist by focusing on mood, flow and listening pleasure rather than history, helping newcomers explore with confidence and curiosity.
Each December, Bach and Handel return to concert halls and churches worldwide. This essay explores why their sacred music still defines Christmas, through theology, tradition, institutional practice and the listening habits of modern audiences.
Music begins before the first note. From vibrating air to emotional memory, hearing transforms physics into feeling, revealing why musicians, listeners, and technology shape sound as an active, deeply human experience of music perception itself.
There is something instantly engaging about a plucked note. It arrives clearly, speaks directly, and then disappears, leaving a small pocket of silence behind. In chamber music, where every sound is exposed, this kind of clarity can feel especially powerful.
Classical music has evolved through four major periods, each with its own style, sound and artistic purpose. Understanding the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern eras helps listeners recognise musical language and appreciate how composers shaped this rich tradition.
On the first death anniversary of tabla maestro Zakir Hussain, the members of Shakti reunite to honour his legacy. Through memories, music and a shared history of innovation, they recount the extraordinary journey that shaped Indo-jazz fusion.
Ahead of the India premiere of his acclaimed ballet, a conversation with choreographer Boris Eifman on his artistic practice and the journey it has taken across continents.
Travelling through Austria and Germany, I encountered three of Verdi’s middle-period operas—Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and La Traviata—works that reveal why his focus on individual passion, not grand politics, still grips audiences today worldwide across generations.
Veteran conductor Noel Edison reflects on Timothy Corlis’s spiritually charged choral music, the making of ‘Immortality’, and why commissioning and recording contemporary Canadian composers remains central to his artistic mission.
Antonín Dvořák’s music blends lyrical melody, folk-inspired rhythms, and classical clarity. His symphonies, chamber works, and sacred music reveal a composer of remarkable warmth, craftsmanship, and national identity whose influence continues to resonate worldwide.
From its early origins in the clavichord and harpsichord to the powerful modern concert grand, the piano’s evolution reflects changing musical tastes, technological innovation, and the expressive ambitions of composers and performers across centuries.
A well chosen instrument case is more than a box. It protects wood from heat, shocks, and seasonal swings, supports your daily routine, and keeps your violin ready for rehearsal, travel, and the demands of orchestral life.