The Latin hymn ‘Ave Verum Corpus’ has been set by some of classical music’s best-loved composers, most famously by Mozart. ‘Ave Verum Corpus’, meaning ‘Hail true body’, is a Eucharistic hymn (holy ...

Playing things backwards today, we begin with encores: First, Maurice Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess, played by Artur Pizarro at Music House in Arhus, Denmark. Then, the Lithuanian Chamber ...

Just forty-six bars containing around three minutes of music. And yet they are capable of leaving the listener just as moved as might an entire five-day long cycle of Wagner’s The Ring. And certainly ...

Byrd's double life, in public a member of Queen Elizabeth I's Chapel Royal in a newly Protestant England, in private a covert Catholic, directly shaped his music. Grand works such as the Great Service ...

Per questa bella mano Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Harry Christophers, Conductor Handel and Haydn Society Chorus Why, though, does the return to the opening ...