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All 24 James Bond theme songs ranked from worst to best, based on musical merit

All 24 James Bond theme songs ranked from worst to best, based on musical merit

Classic FM Puzzle Book – Relax

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Daniel Baremboim took to social media on the evening of 4th October 2022 to make the announcement.

Daniel Barenboim to step back from performing ‘for the coming months’ to concentrate on health

Daniel Barenboim

Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2022: category winners include (left to right): Kirill Petrenko, Dame Mitsuko Uchida, Barbara Hannigan and Jonas Kaufmann

Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2022: all the winners and how to watch the highlights

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The Sixteen at the Tower of London

Classic FM joins The Sixteen for a choral tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, live from the Tower of London

The Sixteen

Abel Selaocoe plays cello for Classic FM on stage at the Southbank Centre in London

Meet Abel Selaocoe, South African cellist, and the Southbank Centre’s newest artist in residence
Great composers

10 Black composers who changed the course of classical music history

Goat 'sings' in animal blessing service at Worcester Cathedral

Bleating billygoat ‘sings’ along during animal blessing at cathedral service

Videos

Lizzo plays a flute which belonged to former American President, James Madison in the Library of Congress

Inside Lizzo’s historically important flute performance at the Library of Congress

Videos

This week’s on-air highlights – including Album of the Week and Drive Discovery

This week’s radio highlights – including Album of the Week and Drive Discovery

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Lizzo performs on a crystal flute, courtesy of the Library of Congress, in Washington D.C.

Lizzo makes history by playing the Library of Congress’ 200-year-old crystal flute

Videos

Two masked flute players in a Hong Kong propaganda video.

Hong Kong propaganda video showing ‘double-masked’ flute players catches attention

Coronavirus

Alison Balsom is an award-winning trumpet soloist

‘To diminish music in education is a really big mistake’ – star trumpeter Alison Balsom

Alison Balsom

Organist, Anna Lapwood, performs the Handel aria with soprano, and security guard, Marcella

Opera-singing security guard joins organist in moving Queen Elizabeth II tribute at London station
The Prince of Wales: a former cellist with conducting ambitions?

King Charles III is a former cellist who once conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra

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10 pieces of classical music that will 100% change your life

10 pieces of classical music that will 100% change your life

4 eras of classical music

The 4 eras of classical music: a quick guide

The 15 most famous tunes in classical music

The 15 most famous tunes in classical music

Women composers gallery

21 of the greatest women composers in classical music

Best pianists of all time

The 25 best pianists of all time

Some of history's greatest composers were part of the LGBTQ+ community.

15 LGBTQ+ composers in classical music history that you probably already know

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