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‘He should pursue conducting’ – the real maestro who taught Bradley Cooper to conduct like Bernstein

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Nicolò Foron won the 17th Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition with a programme of Wagner, Grieg and Berlioz.

25-year-old maestro wins competition with explosive Berlioz in joyous finale

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Sir Keir Starmer chooses Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’, the EU Anthem, as music that sums up the Labour Party

Sir Keir Starmer says Beethoven’s choral anthem ‘Ode to Joy’ sums up the Labour party

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Saint Cecilia Playing The Organ.

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Why do orchestras have so many violins?

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What are the lyrics to Brahms’ ‘Cradle Song’, the most famous lullaby ever written?

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Sir Anthony Hopkins and André Rieu

Emotional Sir Anthony Hopkins watches as André Rieu’s orchestra plays the waltz he wrote 50 years ago...

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DAB+ – a modern, digital way of listening to radio

Classic FM has upgraded to DAB+ across the UK – here’s how to check you can still listen

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Oxford university scraps music department just before opening concert hall.

Oxford Brookes university scraps music department just before opening concert hall

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Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein, conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony in Ely Cathedral.

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'Frère Jacques' is a popular French nursery rhyme

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Karl Jenkins and World Orchestra for Peace

Sir Karl Jenkins conducts World Orchestra for Peace in epic world premiere with hundreds of musicians

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Timothée Chalamet sings ‘Pure Imagination’ in new Wonka clip.

Timothée Chalamet sings enchanting ‘Pure Imagination’ in new sneak-peek at Wonka movie

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Leonard Bernstein with his daughter Jamie

Leonard Bernstein’s daughter Jamie: ‘I wish my father was around to see Maestro!’

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Leonard Bernstein conducted a monumental Beethoven symphony to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall.

When Leonard Bernstein conducted an ‘Ode to Freedom’ after the fall of the Berlin Wall

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Piracicaba Symphony Orchestra play in the dark

This orchestra carried on playing perfectly in pitch black, after all stage lights were cut in a storm

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