Haydn blows the roof off with one of his most explosive symphonies, the teenage Mahler gets seriously emotional in a ...

Who uses the Medusa’s eye? Have you heard a chorus of frogs? Do you know who Gentle Dobbin is? The library keeps a running list of frequently asked for ‘lost’ quotations that for some reason have come ...

Chamber music has always invited a close-knit chemistry, where you can hear every bow and breath. If chamber performances originally took place in homes, then the perfect setting for The Big House ...

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has been celebrated as one of the world’s great orchestras since being founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932. The LPO aims to bring wonder to the modern world with ...

A 295-seat auditorium for music and performance, screenings, poetry readings and a variety of talks and debates, the Purcell Room offers you a real closeness to the arts. Situated within our brutalist ...

Discover new poets through this free online collection of brilliant, moving, funny and groundbreaking poems curated by our specialist poetry librarians. Search the poems by type or by topic, or use ...

Find inspiration from contemporary poems, and ideas of where to get your own poetry published in this list of current poetry magazines. 14 is an annual poetry magazine devoted to poems of 14 lines ...