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Singers and musicians perform back to back during Music in the Flesh project performance of Bach’s St. John Passion at the Royal Academy of Music

Bach ache: the project transforming classical music into an immersive bodily experience

23 Jun 2026

Professor Bettina Varwig is helping classical music re-embrace its powerful relationship with our bodies. A new film reveals the dramatic impact that...

Sycamore Gap tree-inspired choral work world premieres

18 Nov 2025

‘The World Tree’, written by Professor Robert Macfarlane, was performed for the first time by the Helsinki Chamber Choir in Finland.

Einstein's violin, sold by Dominic Winter Auctioneers in 2025

Einstein’s violin identified by Cambridge composer of ‘Einstein’s Violin’

07 Oct 2025

Albert Einstein’s violin has been identified by Dr Paul Wingfield, composer of a musical drama about Einstein’s life as a violinist.

Beethoven’s genome sequenced from locks of his hair

22 Mar 2023

A Cambridge scientist has played a leading role in sequencing Ludwig van Beethoven’s genome, revealing clues to the composer’s health and family...

Music to the ears: Liszt’s lost opera

18 Feb 2019

Liszt's lost opera heard for the first time in 170 years

Anush Hovhannisyan (soprano), Samuel Sakker (tenor), and Arshak Kuzikyan (bass-baritone) record the trio finale with pianist and musicologist David Trippett, in Jesus College Chapel, University of Cambridge

Abandoned Liszt opera finally brought to life - 170 years later

07 Mar 2017

An Italian opera by Franz Liszt – which lay incomplete and largely forgotten in a German archive for nearly two centuries – will be given its world...

Left: Mendelssohn’s 1847 letter to the father of John Robert Lunn, then aged 16. Mendelssohn was excited by the young man’s musical talent, but unable to meet him. Lunn (right) never entered a career in music, but his compositions are highly regarded.

The “Unpublished Prodigy” who caught Mendelssohn’s eye

09 Jul 2015

A previously unseen letter by Felix Mendelssohn is to go on public display in an exhibition about an unrealised British musical prodigy, revealing...

Detail from Fryderyk Chopin (1810–49), Polonaise in A-flat major for piano, Op. 53: autograph manuscript, 1842–43.

The virtual Chopin

01 Mar 2013

One of the greatest composers of the 19th century, Fryderyk Chopin, had an irrepressible creative imagination, and his music experienced continual...

Encounter Mozart with latest Humanitas Professor

29 Oct 2012

The renowned pianist, conductor and musicologist, Robert Levin, arrives in Cambridge this week, where he will give a series of lectures and recitals...

classical music

Bach ache: the project transforming classical music into an immersive bodily experience

Sycamore Gap tree-inspired choral work world premieres

Einstein’s violin identified by Cambridge composer of ‘Einstein’s Violin’

Beethoven’s genome sequenced from locks of his hair

Music to the ears: Liszt’s lost opera

Abandoned Liszt opera finally brought to life - 170 years later

The “Unpublished Prodigy” who caught Mendelssohn’s eye

The virtual Chopin

Encounter Mozart with latest Humanitas Professor

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