After 145 years, haydn welcomes back his head

In this issue’s Frontline you can read our interview with former CIA Assistant Director Mark Lowenthal; analysis of the USA’s historic military strategy in Greenland; plus full accounts of how two key conflicts of the 20th century came to an end

Living opposite Hitler In 1929, Edgar Feuchtwanger was ...

On Friday 18 July, at the hands of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Sakari Oramo, the BBC Proms will be launched into life with Bliss’s Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood – two minu

Much about Henriëtte Bosmans’s life and music is remarkable. But one event stands out as emblematic of her character and strength. Our scene is Amsterdam in 1944, when the Nazis’ grip was on the Dutch

Maurice Ravel has been an enduring part of my world, both as a performer and teacher. As a little girl I played the Mouvement de menuet from his Sonatine at a piano competition, which the renowned pia

There comes a point in life for most of us when we say, enough. We say goodbye to responsibilities that had begun to feel more like obligations, and we either seek new challenges, or find joy in what