GIVE your system a bit of a jolt and try this: I was electrified. Can I give the highest recognition to this latest disc by Belgian band Anima Eterna, with performances of Dvorak’s New World Symphony, ...

Music always seems to come first in the novels of Haruki Murakami. "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" begins with a pot of spaghetti boiled to the sounds of Rossini's "Thieving Magpie"; "Norwegian Wood" ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Wit conducts his Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir in the two outstanding concert works from Janácek’s last ...

Janacek: Glagolitic Mass Sinfonietta soloists, Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Charles Dutoit, conductor (London). Dutoit leads his virtuoso Montreal forces in masterful performances of two of ...

Writer and broadcaster Nigel Simeone reveals the secret inspiration behind composer Leoš Janáček’s 'Sinfonietta' - and why we should especially listen out for the bells. Show more In this series of ...

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner live at the BBC Proms. Britten, Janacek, Nielsen's Flute Concerto with Emily Beynon and a world premiere of Raymond Yiu's Symphony. Live from the ...

Conductor Charles Mackerras died of cancer last night in London at age 84. Mackerras conducted the English National Opera, the Royal Opera and the BBC Concert Orchestra, among many others. But it was ...

FOR much of the 20th century, contemporary classical music was divided, like so much else, into two camps. On one side stood the partisans of Arnold Schoenberg, an Austrian master of atonal and ...

Leos Janácek was even more pompous as an old man than he had been in middle age. We all laugh at politicians with PhDs who style themselves "Dr"; the composer's doctorate was only honorary, but from ...