Why have we commissioned four women composers to write original pieces inspired by Fanny Mendelssohn's piano cycle Das Jahr?

Robert Samuels, Senior Music Lecturer at The Open University explores Mozart's final trilogy of symphonies.

To butcher the Oscar Wilde quote: to write one extraordinary Passion may be regarded as a miracle, to…

Ahead of our performance of Haydn's Creation, conductor Václav Luks shares his perspective on Haydn's masterpiece.

Dr Rachel Stroud, violinist and musicologist from King's College, University of Cambridge explores The Creation by Haydn.

Dr Flora Willson, classical music writer for The Guardian, a broadcaster and cultural historian explores Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy.

On 7 March 1897, Johannes Brahms attended a concert where heard his own music in public for the last time. Jan Swafford, American author and composer of classical music, explores the programme including Brahms' Symphony No. 4 and Haydn's 'La Chasse' Symphony.

Ahead of our performance of Vienna 1897: Brahms' Last Concert, cellist Steven Isserlis shares his perspective on Dvořák's Cello Concerto.