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Wagner’s epic The Ring of the Nibelung, consisting of four operas and taking around 15 hours to unfold, is arguably the most adventurous operatic and theatrical work ever written, taking the audience through a whirlwind of emotion.

Covering 500 year of musical history over six CDs, this is the second part of an impressive endeavour by the BBC to educate us all on the past millennium of music.

Rudolph Kündinger, Tchaikovsky's German piano teacher in the 1850s, wrote that nothing about the Russian's behaviour suggested a potential composer or even a decent performer...

Glenn Gould would have been 75 this September, and this three-part audio documentary (originally made for German radio, whose multichannel mix is included here on a special SACD layer) traces the life of the great Canadian pianist.

‘You can’t separate music and musicians from their world,’ says James Naughtie in the first volume of his insightful Radio 4 series.

This latest release from MakeMusic introduces import and recording of audio tracks synchronised to the score. These functions are straightforward and allow you to add recordings of real instruments and voices to those instruments generated by the bundled (and improved) Garritan Personal Orchestra sound set.

This autumn sees the launch of a DVD series by the Masterclass Media Foundation. Their aim over the next five years is to record around 200 hours of masterclasses and make them available to study and enjoy.

The legacy of Richard Wagner is associated just as much with personal and political controversy as with music. Beginning in the 1840s with Wagner himself, poverty-stricken and caught in the throes of revolutionary Europe, Jonathan Carr’s history traces an incisive narrative through the scandal.

Ever since I was a music-bore teenager, I have been struck by a dearth of books by girls about music.

A name known around the world, Boosey & Hawkes (B&H) has been at the center of the music industry for the past 77 years.