EXCLUSIVE: The King champions William Byrd's compositions just like Elizabeth I did back in the 16th century. To mark the 400th anniversary of this Elizabethan composer, BBC Radio 3 is running ...

The late science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick prophesied that songs by the Elizabethan composer John Dowland would one day by covered by a pop singer named Linda Fox, a thinly disguised version of ...

The latest creative album theme from the celebrated English early music vocal ensemble Stile Antico is In a Strange Land: Elizabethan Composers in Exile. With works by John Dowland, William Byrd, and ...

Sting's begging for it. An album of songs from Elizabethan composer John Dowland, performed solely by voice and lute? Is this supposed to deflate the man's image as pompous and self-important? For ...

It has taken him about 400 years, but the Elizabethan composer John Dowland has finally achieved a number one hit, with the help of a 21st-century superstar. It has taken him about 400 years, but the ...

Simon Halsey presents a series on how composers were inspired by different parts of the country. Inspired by a hymn taken from a psalm that Vaughan Williams discovered when he was putting together the ...

Sniggers were stifled when he accompanied his wife's yoga lecture plucking serenely on the sitar and his tantric sex sessions have become legendary. Now Sting has immersed himself in an even more ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...