Lose yourself in The Lark Ascending, and more CLASSICAL greats

96. SPOTIFY’S CLASSIC COLLECTION

Spotify’s classical section has a host of top-notch performances: for instance, Tasmin Little performing Vaughan Williams’s The Lark

Ascending with the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Andrew Davis. Elsewhere new streaming service Primephonic is a specifically skewed towards classical music and there you can find the likes of Anne-Sophie Mutter as the soloist in Beethoven’s Violin

Concerto, accompanied by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan. spotify.com, primephonic.com

97. FIND THE ORCHESTRA ONLINE

The London Symphony Orchestra has cancelled concerts at London’s Barbican but every Thursday and Sunday will be showing concerts from its archive on its YouTube channel. Similarly, the Royal Opera House is doing online broadcasts. youtube.com/user/ lso, roh.org.uk

98. OPERA AT HOME

The Irish National Opera may have had to cancel their final production, Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio, however you can still see Orfeo ed Euridice, La Cenerentola and Madama Butterfly on their website. There are plans for other digital options too, check the INO website for updates. irishnationalopera. ie/news/2020/opera-online

99. ROLL OVER TO BEETHOVEN

Why not get to know the man whose 250th birthday it is this year? Naxos, Warner Classics and Deutsche Grammophon have all recently issued complete sets of his works, which can be ordered. And John Suchet has a new book out on him, too: Beethoven: The Man Revealed. amazon.co.uk

100. TUNE IN FOR A CLASSIC FIX

You can’t beat RTÉ’s Lyric FM for your fix of classical music. From midweek show favourites Marty in the Mornings with Marty Whelan, Lorcan Murray’s Classic

Drive and The Full Score with Liz Nolan, to weekend gems Movies and Musicals with Aedín Gormley and Opera Night with Paul Herriott.