We think these are the greatest symphonies of all time – the biggest, most emotional, most impressive and plain-old flabbergasting works ever written. Nothing beats the sound of an orchestra ...

Aaron Copland, Florence Price, and Marcel Tyberg each embedded their personal histories into their third symphonies, written in the late 1930s and 1940s. Copland’s celebratory work marking WWII’s end ...

Ahead of a new four-part series exploring how the symphony has shaped our history and identity, Mark Elder choses the form's five key works It's thanks to Haydn that the symphony became the place ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Throughout Shostakovich’s lifetime the most familiar recordings of his symphonies were made by Soviet ...

Lyrical moments – turns of phrase, one line out of many – are among the more underrated moments in music with vocals. It’s not so much the lyric as a whole, or the performance as a whole either, as it ...

Days of looking at crossed-out dates on original manuscripts with magnifying glass reveals different dates on five works from composer’s early period Mozart symphonies from one of the most important ...

Mahler's song "Ging heut' morgens" later appeared as a purely instrumental theme in his Symphony No. 1 (Thomas Hampson, baritone). Gustav Mahler died 97 years ago today — May 18, 1911. Today, he's ...