Analysis of Beethoven’s DNA has revealed that he had a low genetic predisposition for beat synchronization, an ability that’s closely related to musicality. This is according to researchers who set out to show how making genetic predictions for individuals, including famous historical figures, can…

The Gnossiennes (French pronunciation: ​[ɡnosjɛn]) are several piano compositions by the French composer Erik Satie in the late 19th century. The works are for the most part in free time (lacking time signatures or bar divisions) and highly experimental with form, rhythm and chordal structure. The form as well as the term was invented by Satie.

Interactive tool features more than 500 women who are often forgotten in the classical music world

Frédéric Chopin’s archivists and biographers have for centuries turned a deliberate blind eye to the composer’s homoerotic letters in order to make the Polish national icon conform to conservative norms, it has been alleged. Chopin’s Men, a two-hour radio programme that aired on Swiss public broadcaster SRF’s arts channel, argues that the composer’s letters have been at times deliberately mistranslated, rumours of affairs with women exaggerated...

Engravings from an ambitious and beautiful attempt to catalogue, for the first time, the musical instruments of the world.

Better late than never.

Marianna Vasileva, Antal Zalai, Peter Laul, arrangement by Lev Atovmian

Christine Schornsheim

Frankfurt Radio Symphony featuring Khatia Buniatishvili, Paavo Järvi conducting

Концертный зал имени П. И. Чайковского с участием Анастасия Тюрина

Kyung Wha Chung

A team in Cremona, Italy, wants to preserve every note from the world’s finest instruments before they become too fragile to play. But perfect recordings need silence. Lots of it.

Kindred Spirits

Composed by: Karl Jenkins, arranged by Nicholas Hare, string reduction by Mark Green Performed by: Angel City Chorale Soloists: Theresa Nedry-Molinaro

Deepa Rajan

Sometimes it takes an outsider to see a culture clearly. Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's Ninth Symphony was an ode to what American music could become.

Thank you to all who joined us for Remembrance Day and the world premiere of The World Remembers, a song cycle commemorating the First World War. This free concert was a co-commission by the NAC...

Awesome experimental music made with math!

Music that gave me goosebumps when I first heard it.