In celebration of BBC Radio 3's 60th birthday there will be an emphasis on British music ... Malcolm Arnold is Composer of the Week, beginning on 16 October, and his symphonies are also featured ...

Blow resigned as organist at Westminster Abbey in favour of his pupil Purcell (d1695), the greatest British composer for a hundred years before, and after. A new native style developed in the re ...

A British composer, an acclaimed musician and their baby have died in a plane crash in Switzerland. Jonathan Goldstein, saxophonist Hannah Marcinowicz and seven-month-old Saskia were in the light ...