Classic FM Live with Viking is returning to the Royal Albert Hall in October 2026! Tickets are available now via the Royal ...

The Hobbit’ actor Richard Armitage presents a brand-new series on classical music and theatre on Sunday evenings.

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Howard Shore’s epic Middle-earth music is voted No.1 in the Classic FM Movie Music Hall of Fame 2026. Canadian composer ...

Critics are shocked by the brass neck of it. Yes, really. Brass instruments could soon face a 25% tariff on imports, parts, and accessories, as part of a wider push to expand tariffs on aluminium, ...

The audience voiced disapproval after Wagner gets the AI treatment. It is believed that the idea formed when budget constraints changed the original plan to present Wagner’s 10 Bayreuth works, plus ...

A 248-year-old notebook in France’s National Library (BnF) has been officially identified as belonging to a 22-year-old Mozart, in what library experts have called a “major discovery”. Consisting of ...

After a star-studded opening and two weeks of unforgettable competition, here’s all the music that we’re hearing at tonight’s 2024 Olympics Closing Ceremony in Paris. A parade on the Seine, Bizet’s ...

The Italian tenor took to the stage at the Oscars with son Matteo to sing an emotional duet, as the ceremony paid tribute to those we have lost. The pair were joined by a string quartet and a team of ...

From improving memory to reducing stress, listening to classical music can have surprising and astounding benefits. Discover the potential classical music has to improve your life. In 1957, more than ...

This haunting, 13th-century Gregorian chant has worked its way into many favourite film scores, and plays a special part in Hans Zimmer’s music to ‘The Lion King’. Whether you heard it first on ...

With an up-tempo and joyous melody, Gaudete is perhaps the most well-known Christmas carol performed in Latin. It is thought to have been written in the 16th century, and was published in 1582 in a ...