Choosing the best acoustic guitar for your personal needs is a tough one. With so many options on offer these days it’s not surprising that many find themselves faced with option paralysis when ...

Pianist and composer Johann Hummel was a student of Mozart and later friend to Beethoven and Schubert. His Piano Concerto No. 3 is today's Midday Masterpiece.

Puccini and Leoncavallo's race to produce their rival operas is basis of comedy-drama by former Gramophone Editor ...

Always capable of improvisation, his earlier band work was hardly set in stone but did tend to a written guitar structure, which he refers to as “refined jamming.” Not really one for the flash ...

Hear Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony played with authentic Bohemian style by this great Czech orchestra – plus a uniquely authentic performance of The Noonday Witch – Dvořák’s spine-tingling retelling ...