Distinct from other works thanks to its extremely rich melodic imagination, its grand and expressive themes allude to Polish folk music, even though the composer did not use any genuine folklore. The ...

At 8am every day from 1 December until 17 January 2008, Radio 3's Breakfast presenters will introduce a Prelude and Fugue from J S Bach's 'The Well-Tempered Clavier'. Book I: Prelude and Fugue No 3 in ...

Chopin’s Nocturne No. 7, in C-sharp minor, begins with a low, ashen sound: a prowling arpeggio in the left hand, consisting only of C-sharps and G-sharps. It’s a hollowed-out harmony, in limbo between ...