There’s no question that a list of classical music’s greatest hits would include several from Vivaldi. But that list likely would also include works by other composers of the Italian Baroque, ...

An Italian musical concert was held in Delhi recently. Luisa Prayer on the piano and Paoletta Marrocu (in the lead) on vocals concluded their performance with a homage to Rabindranath Tagore ...

It’s not actually all Classical (big ‘C’) at all, so why has the name stuck as an umbrella term for Western instrumental, orchestral and choral music? Oxford’s definition is just one example of how ...

At the Wigmore Hall, their “Giro d’Italia” series will span the 18th-century peninsula. It began with a seven-course menu that featured string concertos composed all the way from Brescia down to ...

Traumatised by the Second World War, my Italian nonno [grandfather] found peace working in his suburban Australian veggie patch while blasting opera out the back window. We weren’t a musical family, ...