For a decade complete, ‘O Holy Night’ has been voted the best-loved Christmas carol of all time in our annual poll.

Dreams come true for Diana Newell, as the 88-year-old pianist makes her Royal Albert Hall debut. Diana Newell, the pianist ...

Paul Bettany has revealed how his own insecurities helped him unlock a raw, anguished portrayal of Antonio Salieri in Sky’s ...

The broadcaster, director and author Sir Humphrey Burton, who helped shape a golden age of classical music on television and ...

Over five centuries since its founding, King’s College, Cambridge is introducing its first all-female choral ensemble.

Musicians played newly-invented instruments on the ‘Avatar’ set, composer Simon Franglen tells Classic FM. Avatar returns to ...

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Turns out Mozart’s middle name and popular moniker, Amadeus, might have originated as a joke. Here’s the back story. Mozart was baptised as (deep breath)… Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus ...

1. A Yorkshire lad John Barry was one of the all-time great masters of movie music. His career spanned some 50 years - from Midnight Cowboy and Born Free to Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa - ...

2. Mozart's first concert and a European tour (1762 - 1765) The young Mozart was, as we know, an early starter when it came to music. But he was especially young to be a concert pianist in 1762, and ...

It’s a medieval torture device that was used – once upon a more primitive time – for publicly shaming bad musicians and other disturbers of the peace. The contraption, which is essentially a heavy ...