Other highlights include his pungent, earthy Shostakovich (try his terrifying version 11 th Symphony) and cogent performances of music by Bliss, Britten and Vaughan Williams ... Another “complete ...

That compares favourably to the 5.7% rise in music consumption across all genres. In fact, sales of classical CDs actually increased by 6.9% - bucking the downward trend in pop and rock.

Classical music has always played a key role in the life of 86-year-old German entrepreneur Klaus Heymann. At the age of nine, his mother took him to a live orchestra performance, which left a ...

The bursting schedules of concerts at the Wigmore Hall, the Barbican Centre and South Bank Centre, and the strength of music in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Cardiff, among other cities, show a ...