At age six Ralph Vaughan Williams began music studies with his aunt. He furthered his education at the Royal College of Music where he received lessons from two fine English composers of the previous ...

Countertenor Iestyn Davies (main picture) has been recognised for years as the supreme interpreter of the Elizabethan composer John Dowland. Here he and the acclaimed French lutenist Thomas Dunford ...

When life feels intense, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Sonata No. 2 meets you right there — with a storm of passion, melancholy, and radiant beauty. Let it pull you in and lift you up. Listen tonight on 91.1, ...

I have a playlist called “I Heart Melancholy,” and I love listening to it so much it hurts. In a good way. And I know you know what I’m talking about, don’t you? Melancholy gets a bad rap. In music, ...

It was admirable of Eike to vary the strain and not repeat the CD sequence in its entirety, but the contrasts were fewer: about 15 shades of black with only a couple of galliards and the marginally ...