Our critic tracked one concert, from its first rehearsals to its first performance. Practice is only part of what makes this ensemble excellent.

Julia Wolfe’s UnEarth will be on at the Barbican in January - Barbican As the winter evenings draw in, music becomes a solace as well as a pleasure. So far this year we’ve enjoyed a Proms season for ...

AI finished Beethoven’s 10th Symphony. As machines learn to compose, what still defines human creativity in classical music today?

As a child in Tokyo, Mari Yoshihara shared her bedroom with a Yamaha upright. She began piano lessons at age 3. It was a typical middle-class Japanese girlhood, she says, recalling that she was ...