As young pianist playing old pianos, DAVID YEARSLEY remembers being taught that ivory is warm and welcoming to the touch...

DAVID YEARSLEY muses on the State Department’s use of film to project US power

DAVID YEARSLEY reveals the hidden workforce behind the illusion of effortless music

DAVID YEARSLEY explains his fascination with the immutable beauty of Vangelis’s score for the Blade Runner that has survived intact innumerable versions of the film released over the years

The English ‘countryside’ is a commodity, but given the density of the population it is astounding how ardently it is safeguarded as a painterly, poetic, and photographic image, writes DAVID YEARSLEY

DAVID YEARSLEY pays tribute to the Django Reinhardt compatriot who left an indelible mark across musical genres

With Europe disunited and in the throes of war DAVID YEARSLEY looks at George Frideric Handel opera Rinaldo composed when conflict engulfed the Old Continent in the 18th century