PARMA Recordings has acquired MSR Classics and its 800-strong catalogue, expanding its growing classical portfolio and ensuring continued distribution, administration, and visibility for one of the industry’s most respected independent labels.
Frédéric Chopin transformed the piano into a voice of intimacy and lyricism. Through nuance, rubato, and emotional restraint, his music speaks like poetry, revealing inner worlds rather than outward spectacle.
Stage fright affects musicians at every level, but it need not define performance. With psychological insight, physical awareness, and thoughtful preparation, anxiety can be transformed into focus, confidence, and expressive freedom on stage consistently live.
An accessible introduction to essential jazz standards for classical musicians, exploring melody, harmony and rhythm while offering practical insights into how these timeless pieces can expand musical fluency and creative confidence.
A clear, practical guide to understanding audio interfaces, explaining how they work, why they matter, and how to choose the right one for recording, teaching, or music production, without unnecessary jargon or brand-driven hype.
Piano-born yet guitar-haunted, Granados’s 'Danzas españolas' find new life in a complete duo transcription by Eugenio Della Chiara and Pietro Locatto. They discuss tradition, tuning, colour, and the intimacy of playing as one.
Beethoven transformed music from courtly entertainment into a public, philosophical art. His symphonies, sonatas, and ideals of expression continue to define how modern concert halls programme, perform, and listen.
Goa’s concert calendar opens with a landmark appearance by the SOI Chamber Orchestra, led by Marat Bisengaliev. With a rich touring legacy and a strong education mission, the ensemble promises an unforgettable evening.
Violinist Linda Hedlund discusses musical archaeology, interpretative responsibility, and reviving forgotten Finnish concertos, revealing how archival rediscovery, orchestral listening, and historically informed performance shape her latest Naxos recording.
Listening to a symphony does not require expertise, only curiosity. This guide offers first-time audiences practical ways to engage with orchestral music, from following musical conversations to embracing emotion, attention, and discovery in the concert hall.
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.
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.
Features
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.
Features
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.
Music Education
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.
Know Your Composer
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 Education
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.
Music Education
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.
Features
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.
Music of India
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.
Interviews
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.