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India’s ambulance sirens will play out traditional flute and tabla music

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Classic FM’s Alexander Armstrong to sing 24 concerts in 24 hours for charity

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

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Rice ball composers

Someone is turning great classical composers into rice balls and it’s a thing of beauty

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Classic FM Live returns to the Royal Albert Hall

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Pianist plays the ‘Psycho’ theme on a piano with actual knives

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New York opera singers rehearse delightful Mozart trio in subway on the way to work

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Orchestra descends on square to perform Grieg’s ominous ‘Hall of the Mountain King’

Orchestra surprises Polish town square with Grieg’s epically ominous ‘Hall of the Mountain King’

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Health worker performs graceful ballet routine in ‘moment of pure joy’ at Utah hospital

Health worker performs graceful ballet routine in ‘moment of pure joy’ at Utah hospital

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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

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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: a life in pictures

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