Winston Churchill cigar box violin rectangle

Violin made from Winston Churchill’s cigar box to be auctioned

Katie Melua Gori Women's Choir

Exclusive: Watch Katie Melua’s new recording of The Little Swallow

Mozart Myth busting

Did you know that Mozart only wrote about 50% of his Requiem?

Mozart

Steve Reich Yamaha

Steve Reich: ‘In my lifetime, classical music has never been so populated with talented people’

Steve Reich

Laura Mvula

Laura Mvula: ‘Teaching music was the best and worst thing that ever happened to me’

Trapp family

This wonderful moment from The Sound of Music is the perfect way to remember Charmian Carr and Liesl von Trapp

How musicians deal with nerves

We asked some of the greatest musicians in the world how they deal with nerves. Here’s what they said

youth orchestra play elgar in airport

This youth orchestra were stuck overnight in an airport, so they played something truly beautiful

Elgar

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Dick Van Dyke did an impromptu performance of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in a diner and it’s made us all nostalgic

Petrol pump attendant opera

This petrol pump guy sings Handel surprisingly beautifully

Ivry Gitlis concert at 93

This 93-year-old violinist is proof that music never ages and never leaves you

erhu flight of the bumblebee

This two-string Erhu player is INCREDIBLE at Flight of the Bumblebee

Rimsky-Korsakov

flautist attracts whale

Watch this flautist make a whale come to the surface (and almost knock her over)

Discover Music

Antonio Pappano's tips for young conductors

‘Don’t be satisfied with being a big fish in a small pond’: Antonio Pappano’s 5 tips for musicians

Sir Antonio Pappano

cecilia bartoli long note

Cecilia Bartoli holds this one note for an astonishingly long time (complete with showy crescendos and diminuendos)

Discover Music

floppy disk star wars

Star Wars played on 64 floppy disk drives is surprisingly pleasing

Williams

kid playing cheltenham street piano

Watch this kid perform an epic medley on a street piano