World-renowned opera singer Sir Bryn Terfel trades the opera stage for the studio, joining Classic FM to present a new ...

Wolfgang and Constanze went on to have six children together between 1783 and 1791. However, only two of the children ...

She didn’t skip a beat when the cannonball – fortunately a lightweight prop – bounced onto one of the timpani behind her, ...

Here’s what went into Will Sharpe’s preparation for the piano scenes in Sky Arts’ new adaptation of ‘Amadeus’.

Composer Max Richter, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote, and Olympic ice skaters Torvill and Dean are among those recognised in the ...

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

We all know Auld Lang Syne from bleary-eyed New Year’s Eve renditions, but have you ever wondered exactly what the words mean, and where they come from? And what about the tune? Most of us will know ...

A work that featured in 2010 film Insidious, TV drama This is England 86 and Ricky Gervais’s series Derek The title of this work by Ludovico Einaudi means, simply, white clouds, and it’s a title which ...

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 ...

Musicians played newly-invented instruments on the ‘Avatar’ set, composer Simon Franglen tells Classic FM. Avatar returns to our screens for a third time with Avatar: Fire and Ash, all three hours and ...

With the rise of streaming services, young people are listening to more Mozart and Bach than they did 10 years ago. And during lockdown, classical music has experienced a second boom. Classical music ...

A light music classic, well-known to veteran radio listeners. Ronald Binge was a British composer and arranger of light music. This is probably his best known composition. When it was first played by ...