Many of us know the recorder as the plastic pipe that gets handed out in elementary school music class. More closely resembling a toy than something a rock star would carry, it doesn’t have a ...

ON February 27, 1668, after attending a performance of The Virgin Martyr by Philip Massinger, Samuel Pepys noted in his diary: “That which did please me beyond anything in the whole world was the wind ...

Remember the recorder? It's that small plastic instrument — looks kind of like a flute or clarinet — that's often the first instrument children learn to play in school. Or, at least, they used to. But ...

What is it? The sound of primary school music rooms everywhere, forever. Everyone reading this must have played a recorder at some point – probably badly. Who uses it? Think recorders are kids toys?

RECORDERS, yeah. What are they good for? Absolutely nothing. At least that's what ran through the minds of almost every nine or ten-year-old student – including myself back in the day – being forced ...

Classical music is an important part of life for the UK’s Prime Minister, who has a particular passion for Beethoven piano sonatas. The former barrister, who was elected to succeed Rishi Sunak as ...