We delve into the history of a hybrid genre ...

With Easter just around the corner, we delve into perhaps the richest (and often darkest) choral repertoire of all ...

Read the programme note for our online performance of Gipps' Seascape

Or, how suppressing a work for 80 years can affect its long-term fortunes.

We complete our survey of the concerto for stringed instruments with the double bass. It's not just about jazz!

It's the 19th century and musical retellings of Greek myths are out. Enter the European folk tale ...

The Orchestra is touring Scotland this summer, with 7 programmes across 20 venues.

How do composers set about telling a story in music? We look at a few examples.

Listen very carefully, Can you hear that tune? Those are the sounds of students building The Great Grumpy Gaboon!

Depending on whom you ask, death can be comforting or inspire holy terror, including in composers writing a Mass for the Dead.

The oboe: refined, yes, but cheeky or melancholic? Join us as we look at the concertos exploring this instrument's wide-ranging moods.

We take a look at musical depictions of water, from trickling burns to the wide expanse of the ocean, to see what lurks below the surface.