From Mendelssohn’s Elijah to his Scottish Symphony, here are some of the early Romantic composer’s most glorious pieces of ...

A composer, organist, conductor and pedagogue. Born on 22 December 1866 in Środa near Poznań, died on 11 September 1924 in Warsaw. We all know that Fryderyk Chopin (Frédéric Chopin) was one of the ...

Featuring Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) principals Katherine Bryan (flute), Betsy Taylor (cello) with Falkirk-born ...

But how did composers imagine 'Polishness' in music – both in Poland and abroad? How did Polish music succeed in carrying the spirit of a national struggle across generations? What songs did Poles ...

Composers were marketed as purveyors of the “classical”; it was a way of telling 19th-Century consumers that, by playing and listening to Haydn, Brahms, and Mendelssohn, they could become ...

What we now call impressionist music is a style introduced in late 19th Century France ... in mood and 'colour' in the work of impressionist composers. Impressionist composers did not tie ...

Assured performances from the RPO as part of its ongoing “Lights in the Dark” series that brought career correspondences ...