When I was a teenager trying to learn how to play piano, one of the hardest things for me was having to learn two different parts and then put them together. At least, that’s how my teenage brain saw ...

The North East’s own chamber orchestra Royal Northern Sinfonia (RNS) will perform a special season of concerts at The Fire Station in Sunderland. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Sunderland ...

Heinz Holliger is to the oboe what James Galway and Jean Pierre Rampal are to the flute, or Dennis Brain to the horn: the standard by which all else is compared. He is also an accomplished composer ...

One might have thought Bach wrote sufficient orchestral music – concertos, suites – to keep everyone supplied with enough repertoire. But that didn’t stop violinist, conductor and inveterate arranger ...

(15) 2-Part Inventions, Movements: C Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Till Fellner, Piano (15) 2-Part Inventions, Movements: C minor Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Till Fellner, Piano (15) 2-Part ...

The Music: Bach wrote orchestral movements, or sinfonias, for only 21 of his 200-plus extant church cantatas. Accademia Bizantina perform 19 of them here. Pressure forced Bach to recycle. Look out for ...

Cantata No. 36, 'Schwingt freudig euch empor', Movements: Aria: Willkommen, werter Schatz (B) Concerto Köln Benjamin Appl, Baritone Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Cantata No. 21, 'Ich hatte viel ...

An enjoyably varied programme took in Piazzolla, Samuel Barber and Queen with Suzie Collier conducting the Britten Sinfonia, but the musical fireworks were all courtesy of her son Jacob and mandolin ...