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Ice skating prodigy Ilia Malinin broke a world record with his free skating performance to the Succession theme tune at the World Figure Skating Championships 2024.

19-year-old makes figure skating history in viral ‘Succession’ theme routine

Great Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini

Remembering the great Maurizio Pollini with this intensely beautiful final Beethoven sonata

St John’s Voices

Cambridge college says upset is ‘regrettable’, as thousands petition over axed chapel choir

Classic FM Live with Viking

Classic FM Live returns to the Royal Albert Hall for a night of classical music anthems

The Poor Clare Sister of Arundel on Abbey Road

Singing nuns of 800-year-old tradition are bringing their vocal music to pop charts

Anna Lapwood wins Best Classical Artist at The Global Awards 2024

Anna Lapwood wins ‘Best Classical’ artist category at The Global Awards 2024

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World’s only one-handed concert pianist Nicholas McCarthy reveals fascinating history of left hand piano

World’s only one-handed concert pianist reveals fascinating history of left hand piano

Luciano Pavarotti and Tracy Chapman duet in 2000

When Pavarotti and Tracy Chapman stunned the world in a soulful operatic duet

St John’s Voices

‘Devastated’ St John’s Cambridge mixed choir abolished, with music director made redundant

Danny O'Donoghue of The Script reveals hit song ‘Hall of Fame’ inspiration

Danny O’ Donoghue reveals The Script’s biggest song was inspired by the Classic FM Hall of Fame

Vote in the Classic FM Hall of Fame 2024 for the chance to win one of 10 Amazon Echo Dots

Vote for your favourite classical music in the Classic FM Hall of Fame 2024!

Classic FM’s Rising Stars 2024

Classic FM’s Rising Stars 2024: 30 young musicians reshaping classical music

Paganini’s violin is X-rayed to examine its wood.

Scientists X-rayed Paganini’s favourite violin, to reveal the deep secret of its sound

Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto inspired the songwriter of hit pop power ballad ‘All By Myself’.

Why ‘All By Myself’ sounds uncannily like Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2

Andrea Bocelli duets with his son Matteo at the 96th Academy Awards.

Andrea Bocelli sings moving ‘Time to Say Goodbye’ duet with son Matteo at Oscars ceremony

Oppenheimer composer Ludwig Göransson accepts Oscar for Best Original Score at 96th Academy Awards.

Oppenheimer composer thanks parents ‘for giving me guitars, not video games’ in Oscars speech

Hélène de Montgeroult, the incredible woman whose music saved her life in revolutionary France

Hélène de Montgeroult – the French composer who played piano to save herself from the guillotine