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Andrea Bocelli and HAUSER duet in New York

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

The Aurora Orchestra performing in Printworks London

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Beethoven

Man plays ‘world’s largest flutes’, creating the perfect eerie soundtrack for The Whale movie

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The Stumpff Lock in a laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany.

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Beethoven

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The 292-year-old Guarneri violin known as the ‘Baltic’

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Arsha Kaviani plays Rachmaninov

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Rachmaninov

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