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Best of Aaron Copland: 11 essential works from the voice of American classical music

Aaron Copland crafted a sound that evokes America's wide open spaces and pioneering spirit. Here are 11 of his very greatest works
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Feel the rhythm! 7 toe-tapping pieces that will make you want to dance

Composer-conductor Odaline de la Martinez prizes tempo, swing and bounce in her top rhythmic works
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Did Mendelssohn peak at the age of just 16 with his magnificent Octet?

Cheers! Here are music's most boisterous drinking songs

We discover which composers were partial to a drinking song or two...
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From Hitchcock to Hercules: seven new musicals you need to see in 2025

It’s not just the West End that is alive with new Musical, there are World Premiere productions taking place elsewhere in the UK, too...
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The drunken disaster that Rachmaninov needed therapy to get over

The sorry tales of pieces that, for one reason or another, would go on to haunt their own composers
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We quizzed musicians for their dream and nightmare pieces to perform. The results are fascinating

Which works do orchestral players love to play? And which do they dread? We head round the sections of some of Europe’s finest ensembles to find out
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'The rebellion of a very ill man against a very sick society': why critics shunned the Shostakovich Second Cello Concerto

British critics were slow to appreciate the qualities of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich's Second Cello Concerto, as Erik Levi explains
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'The greatest single step in the history of music': the masterpiece that tore up the classical rulebook

We analyse the genius and revolutionary inspiration behind Beethoven's extraordinary, epoch-making Third Symphony, the 'Eroica'
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So you like Vivaldi's Four Seasons... why not try these other seasonal works?

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