Music

Many composers, including me, love football so much that we are inspired by the beautiful game

Dumbing down church music and liturgy has emptied the pews. Our tradition deserves better

Thomas Wode’s part-books show the centrality of music in Scottish life just before the Reformation

For the first time in the history of the Bayreuth Festival, a Jewish director staged a new production

From choirs to colliery bands, the Cumnock Tryst festival celebrates the social aspect of music

Bruckner and Mahler were very different but their epic ninth symphonies have much in common

The work of the Continent’s great composers is rooted in a culture long predating the age of revolution

Young composers are still gripped by the urge to make music, and now to break down cultural barriers

The Vienna State Opera’s orchestra is fairly paid — and never has an off-night. London players aren’t so lucky

Daniel Barenboim, 75 this year, is a rarity: a classical musician whose voice is heard by world leaders