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You won’t get 20/20 on this quiz if you don’t know your musical abbreviations
musician would you rather

This musician edition of Would You Rather is completely excruciating
greatest best man speech

Everyone is saying this pianist gave the greatest best man speech of all time

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We challenged one of the Classic FM team to make one of the most complex cakes in the world – the opera cake

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An *oboist* inhaled helium and played a virtuosic Mozart concerto

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This trombone fail will make you laugh and then immediately feel awful for laughing

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Moana - Luke Herd piano

Virtuosic pianist rescues a piano, drags it to the sea and plays ‘How Far I’ll Go’ from Moana

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Composer insults

22 of the best insults in classical music

oboe snaps - LSO Olivier

This oboe soloist’s reed SNAPPED mid-solo, but he recovered like a pro

18 hours ago

Camille Bertault

This vocalist flawlessly SINGS the most difficult jazz saxophone solo of all-time
12-year-old cellist

This 12-year-old cellist writes and plays his own compositions and they are phenomenal

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