What makes Ravel such a great orchestrator?

What drew Beethoven to return to the same theme four times over?

From Haydn to Maxwell Davies, composers have delighted in portraying the majesty of the rising sun. We look at a few of them ...

How has Wagner's epithet affected the way we approach this favourite Beethoven symphony?

Is there any real difference between these terms?

Why is Mozart's Violin Concerto No 5 known as the Turkish ... and is it warranted?

To mark the launch of our new Mendelssohn CD, we look at the thorny issue of how symphonies are numbered. Warning: may cause confusion!

If the Eroica was originally entitled the Bonaparte, what does the music tell us about Beethoven's view of Napoleon?