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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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John Williams: Compositions, movies, age and awards revealed

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Vienna New Year's Concert

The best classical music for New Year’s Eve

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Eric Whitacre

Eric Whitacre: the composer’s most famous songs, awards, wife and more facts revealed

Is this the grandest Wetherspoons in the UK?

This former opera house is now pulling £2 pints after being restored into a pub

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was filmed in Gloucester Cathedral

Troll in the cloisters? The UK’s most beautiful cathedrals used in famous films

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RCM Music Museum

The most spectacular musical instrument museums you can visit across the world

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Claude Debussy flying a kite with Louis Laloy.

23 historic photographs of classical composers doing incredibly normal things

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Debussy reincarnated in artist’s lifelike classical composer 3D portraits

Debussy reincarnated in artist’s lifelike classical composer 3D portraits

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Pianist Martha Argerich

Martha Argerich: 11 stunning photos of the great pianist

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Mozart's former home, London

Take a peek inside Mozart’s actual (£8 million) London townhouse

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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: a life in pictures

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: an incredible life in pictures

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh: a life in pictures

Mother's Day music

14 beautiful pieces of classical music for Mother’s Day

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Moonlight Sonata breakup

23 classical music memes that perfectly sum up your love life

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Arnold Schoenberg joke

28 cringe-worthy classical music jokes that you need in your life

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Beethoven's 'real' face?

See Beethoven’s ‘real’ face in artist’s 3D colourised portraits

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

This week’s on-air highlights – including Album of theThis week’s on-air highlights – including Album of the Week and Drive Discovery
Dr. Alex George returns to Classic FM to present Classic FM’s Revision Hour

Classic FM launches Revision Hour: classical music for concentration and exam advice for students
If you play ‘Star Wars’ music on Spotify, the play bar turns into an actual lightsaber

People are only just realising the Spotify play bar becomes a lightsaber when you listen to Star Wars

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Pianist Lionel Yu creates genius dubstep remix of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata

Pianist creates genius dubstep remix of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata, in front of live audience

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The world's largest pipe organ.

Hear the epic sound of a 33,112-pipe organ in Atlantic City – the world’s largest musical instrument

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Nadine Sierra

This operatic soprano finds stunning, unexpected acoustics to sing in

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