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The Aurora Orchestra performing in Printworks London

Beethoven’s Symphony No.5 fills Printworks in Aurora Orchestra’s thrilling immersive concert

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

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

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The history of the castrati

What was a castrato? And what did they sound like? Inside their sinister history...

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Classic FM’s Rising Stars: 30 brilliant musicians under the age of 30 we’re celebrating in 2023.

Classic FM’s Rising Stars: 30 sensational musicians performing in 2023

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

Scientific analysis of Beethoven’s DNA reveals he had Hepatitis B and high risk of liver disease

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Classical Dreams is a Global Player exclusive podcast

Listen to new ‘Classical Dreams’ podcast episodes on World Sleep Day

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Pachelbel’s Canon on trains

Pachelbel’s Canon… honked out by hundreds of train horns in a hilarious medley

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20 of the greatest piano concertos of all time. Pictured (L-R): Arsha Kaviani, Mitsuko Uchida, Yuja Wang.

The 20 best piano concertos of all time

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

Centuries-old Italian violin breaks auction records after selling at £7.71 million

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Met Opera ordered to pay Anna Netrebko $200,000 for cancellations over Putin ties

Met Opera ordered to pay Anna Netrebko $200,000 for cancellations over Putin ties

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New York Metropolitan Opera

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

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

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Arsha Kaviani plays Rachmaninov

Virtuoso pianist plays mind-bending solo piano arrangement of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2

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Girls admitted to Benedictine abbey choir near Barcelona for first time in 700 year-history

Girls admitted to ancient monastery choir in Spain for first time in 700 year-history

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Alison Balsom, Lang Lang, Nicola Benedetti, Isata Kanneh-Mason, Abel Selaocoe and Ludovico Einaudi

Lang Lang and Ludovico Einaudi among Best Classical Artist nominees at the Global Awards 2023

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Lang Lang performs a solo piano concert at Carnegi

The 16 best classical piano pieces of all time

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Why Bill Bailey thinks Debussy’s Arabesque is the perfect soundtrack to his life

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Blind pianist Lucy’s sublime Debussy Arabesque crowned winning performance in The Piano finale

Blind pianist Lucy’s sublime Debussy Arabesque crowned winning performance in The Piano finale

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You'll Never Walk Alone

How did ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ become Liverpool Football Club’s anthem?

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Lang Lang and Gina Alice Redlinger play a piano duet at St Pancras station in London

Lang Lang stuns London train station with impromptu piano duet with wife Gina Alice

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Pianist Karim Kamar is joined by an unexpected, pocket-sized duet partner...

Classical pianist plays impromptu duet with playful toddler in middle of train station

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Lang Lang

Lang Lang’s albums, age, wife and more facts about the star pianist

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Queen coronation balcony

What music was played at Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation?

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Nicola Benedetti Grammy Award and violin

Nicola Benedetti: who is the star violinist, what are her best recordings and what violin does she play?

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