Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule Programme music is instrumental music supplied with a literary "programme" ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. The 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky—still popular today for such works as ...

Programme music is instrumental music supplied with a literary "programme" by the composer, or, more loosely, with an allusive title. After a period in which abstract generic titles like "sonata" or ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule "Pathétique" is the title suggested to Tchaikovsky for his Symphony No 6 in ...

"Pathétique" is the title suggested to Tchaikovsky for his Symphony No 6 in b minor, the day after the premiere on 28 October 1893. Tchaikovsky had spent the month ...