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Aled Jones and Russell Watson to perform at the Global Awards 2020

Aled Jones and Russell Watson to perform at the Global Awards 2020

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van Eyck Alterpiece

Shock at lamb’s ‘alarmingly humanoid’ face in restored Renaissance masterpiece

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Classic FM Hall of Fame

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Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic is officially coming to Netflix

Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic is officially coming to Netflix

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Lizzo classical inspiration

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Pop music moves at a snail’s pace, says new study

Pop music evolves as slowly as the animal kingdom, scientists claim in new culture study

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Shostakovich’s opera, The Nose, follows a Kovalyov Yakolevich as he loses his nose and attempts to track it down.

Giant tap-dancing noses star in this brilliantly surreal Shostakovich opera

2 days ago

Julian Lloyd Webber says he'll quit as Principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire over funding clash

Julian Lloyd Webber warns he’ll quit music conservatoire job over arts cuts

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Julian Lloyd Webber

Haydn and Mozart by the Australian Chamber Orchestra; Beethoven Symphonies 5 & 7 by the NDR Radiophilharmonie

New Releases: Haydn and Mozart – Australian Chamber Orchestra; Beethoven Symphonies 5 & 7 – NDR Radiophilharmonie

2 days ago

Russian conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy

Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist and conductor, retires with immediate effect

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Vladimir Ashkenazy

Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes UK chart history

Sheku Kanneh-Mason is first cellist in history to reach top 10 of UK album chart

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Classic FM’s Andrew Collins meets Hollywood legend Tom Hanks

Listen to Classic FM’s interview with Tom Hanks on Saturday Night at the Movies

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Mark Hamill is reunited with missing vinyl signed by John Williams

Mark Hamill reunited with missing Star Wars soundtrack signed by John Williams, 20 years later

5 days ago

Valentina Sanna, 14, dies of meningitis

‘Angel’ ballerina, Valentina Sanna, dies aged 14 after contracting rare form of meningitis

5 days ago

Salvatore Lombardo performs Swan Lake in a tutu

Watch ‘crazy violinist’ perform Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake in a tutu

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simon rattle iconic photos

Sir Simon Rattle turns 65! Here are the most iconic pictures of the great conductor

Greta Thunberg’s powerful words on climate change set to music by British composer

Greta Thunberg’s powerful words on climate change set to music by British composer

6 days ago

Anya Taylor-Joy stars as Emma

Emma movie 2020: we reveal the trailer, soundtrack, cast and release date

6 days ago

Nicola Benedetti performs at the Benedetti Sessions

Nicola Benedetti: ‘There is no more valuable position than that of a music teacher’

6 days ago

Nicola Benedetti

Sheku Kanneh-Mason inspires a new generation of cellists

There are more young cellists in 2020 than ever, thanks to the ‘Sheku effect’

7 days ago

Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Reports claim ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn fled Japan by hiding in a double bass case.

Yamaha warns ‘don’t hide in our musical instrument cases’ after Carlos Ghosn’s shameless escape

7 days ago

What's the music in 'No Time to Die'?

No Time To Die soundtrack: what’s the music in the new Bond film and when is it released?

8 days ago

Big Ben restoration

What tune does Big Ben chime? Everything to know about the country's most famous bell

8 days ago

Lady Gaga performs on a giant grand piano

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8 days ago

Lightsaber Star Wars Spotify

When you listen to Star Wars on Spotify, the play bar is a legit LIGHTSABER

8 days ago

Hans Zimmer to score the latest Bond instalment No Time To Die

Hans Zimmer confirmed as new ‘No Time to Die’ Bond film composer

8 days ago

Jacqueline du Pre

Ballet based on life of British cellist Jacqueline du Pré coming to Royal Opera House

8 days ago

Jacqueline du Pré

The morsing, an instrument used in the Carnatic South Indian classical tradition

What is a ‘morsing’ – and what is the instrument’s place in Indian classical music?

9 days ago

John Williams receives 52nd Oscar nomination

John Williams receives his 52nd Oscar nomination for ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ score

9 days ago

Who is Hedgehog on The Masked Singer?

Fans of The Masked Singer are convinced that ‘Hedgehog’ is Alfie Boe or Michael Ball

9 days ago

Sydney Opera House glows with images of heroic bushfire firefighters

Australia’s heroic firefighters honoured by Sydney Opera House as their photographs illuminate its façade

9 days ago

A 9-year-old pianist was killed in the Iran plane crash, and her father posted this moving tribute

A 9-year-old pianist was killed in the Iran plane crash, and her father posted this moving tribute

9 days ago

Classic FM New Releases

New Releases: Elgar – Sheku Kanneh-Mason; Cimarosa: Overtures Vol. 6 – Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra

9 days ago

Royal wedding cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason takes on Elgar’s Cello Concerto on his new album on Decca Classics

Royal wedding cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason records Elgar’s Cello Concerto at Abbey Road Studios

12 days ago

Sheku Kanneh-Mason

A century old violin was among the valuable instruments stolen

‘Horrendous’: music teacher’s rare $100,000 instruments stolen while she was sleeping in Melbourne home

12 days ago

Alice Sara Ott Beethoven

Current obsession: this descending scale in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1

12 days ago

Martin Baker leads the Westminster Cathedral Choir

Westminster Cathedral Choir’s head of music quits over boarding school arrangement complaints

12 days ago

Music is a universal language, reveals new study

Music is a universal language, new Harvard University study proves

13 days ago

Trumpet wedding fail

This ‘Wedding March’ trumpet fail is the worst thing to happen on your special day

13 days ago

7 reasons to sign up to Classic FM’s newsletter

7 reasons to sign up to Classic FM’s newsletter

13 days ago

Pastor accuses musicians who play church instruments and get paid for their performance of being thieves

Pastor says ‘You’re a thief if you play a church instrument and collect money’

13 days ago

‘Flamenco priest’ shows off dance moves in packed church service

‘Flamenco priest’ shows off dance moves in Andalusia church service

14 days ago

Bells ring out 'Life on Mars' at Amsterdam church

Bells ring out Bowie’s ‘Life on Mars’ at 17th-century Amsterdam church

14 days ago

Guitarist plays Space Oddity to dog

This guitarist playing ‘Space Oddity’ to his dog is the loveliest thing ever

14 days ago

Jimmy Fallon does not understand how to play the contrabass flute

Shaquille O'Neal and Jimmy Fallon: a musical analysis of their Random Instruments Challenge

15 days ago

Man arrested after throwing flute at judge during court case in India

Man arrested after throwing a flute at judge in Indian courtroom

15 days ago

15-year-old girl admits to stealing Katherine Jenkins' iPhone

Top GCSE student, 15, confesses and apologises for stealing £500 iPhone from Katherine Jenkins

15 days ago

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Marin Alsop, Simone Young, Susanna Mälkki and JoAnn Falletta

Eight of the world’s 100 top conductors are now women, compared to just one in 2013

15 days ago

‘Joker’ composer Hildur Guðnadóttir is first female to win ‘Best Score’ at Golden Globes

‘Joker’ composer Hildur Guðnadóttir is first woman to win ‘Best Score’ at Golden Globes

16 days ago

Statue of JS Bach in the courtyard of St Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany, where he was organist and musical director AD 1724

‘Immense damage’ to JS Bach’s church as stained glass windows smashed in attack

16 days ago

Carlos Ghosn accused of fleeing Japan in double bass case

Ex-Nissan boss smuggled out of Japan, ‘hiding in a double bass case’

16 days ago

New Year's Concert 2020 and Tchaikovsky and Barber - Violin Concertos

New Releases: Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert 2020; Tchaikovsky & Barber Violin Concertos

16 days ago

Violinist Nicola Benedetti has released her first recording with The Benedetti Foundation Orchestra

Nicola Benedetti releases recording with Benedetti Foundation Orchestra

19 days ago

Nicola Benedetti

Government announces £85m funding for music lessons in schools

Government announces £85m funding for music in schools, hopes children leave “able to read and write music”

19 days ago

Danny Elfman announced in the Coachella 2020 line-up

Composer Danny Elfman announced in the Coachella 2020 line-up

19 days ago

Lorna and Nelson speak exclusively to Classic FM about meeting on Classic FM Romance at the end of 2018.

Join the online dating website designed for those who love arts, culture and classical music

19 days ago

Cellist Margarita Balanas stars in ‘Pianissimo’ – a short film that uses classical music to highlight mental health struggles and loneliness

This powerful short film uses classical music to highlight mental health struggles and loneliness

20 days ago

The Global Awards are back!

The Global Awards with very.co.uk are back for 2020

21 days ago

Katherine Jenkins has officially sold the most classical albums this century

Katherine Jenkins has officially sold the most classical albums this century

21 days ago

Charlotte Hawkins performs a duet with pianist Alexis Ffrench on Good Morning Britain

Watch Charlotte Hawkins play a piano duet with Alexis Ffrench

23 days ago

Jennifer Hudson plays Grizabella in Tom Hooper’s 2019 Cats adaptation

5 reasons why Jennifer Hudson’s version of ‘Memory’ is the best thing about the new Cats movie

23 days ago

2010s changed classical music

10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever

24 days ago

Sheku Kanneh-Mason awarded MBE in New Year’s Honours

Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason awarded MBE in New Year’s Honours

26 days ago

Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Classic FM Musical Cipher

Someone made an algorithm that turns your name into a musical cipher

26 days ago

Renovation Of Notre Dame De Paris

Notre Dame cathedral only has a ‘50% chance’ of being saved, rector says

26 days ago

Video highlights

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Ballerinas protest outside Opéra Garnier

Ballerinas perform ‘Swan Lake’ in protest against France’s pension reform

New Zealand Police singing carols

New Zealand Police go viral singing ‘Silent Night’ and other Christmas carols

Nicki Minaj and Pachelbel meet

Someone has done a disturbing remix of Pachelbel’s Canon and Nicki Minaj’s ‘Starships’

Latest pictures

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Left-handed classical musicians

Left-Handers Day 2019: celebrating the most successful left-handed classical musicians

Nicola Benedetti violin

Nicola Benedetti: we reveal the star violinist’s parents, albums and concerts

Nicola Benedetti

Verdi's airport adventure

27 totally cringe-worthy music jokes that you need in your life right now

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