Technically, a Requiem is a type of Mass. Forty years ago, it might not have been necessary to define these terms, but in today's multi-centric societies, particularly the burping polyglot that is ...

The cathedral of sound unleashed in the "Tuba mirum," with a chorus of 129 voices, 16 timpani and 29 brass players sounding across the four corners of Music Hall's stage, was unforgettable. The ...

Hector Berlioz may be the most misunderstood of all great composers. To this day, he is caricatured as a tousle-headed, opium-munching, Heaven-storming romantic, a fount of revolutionary fire. Well ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

It depends on where you sit, but even in the very front row of the seating under the dome, what in continental terms would be seen as a VIP seat but made available because the three unreserved press ...