To mark International Women’s Day on Classic FM, the superstar mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins OBE will present a special programme to celebrate the most influential women in classical music.

Hiromi, Tiffany Poon and Alice Sara Ott are among the star pianists to join the latest season of Channel 4’s hit talent show.

Described by acclaimed violinist Daniel Hope as a “tremendous talent”, the 25-year-old Berlin-based cellist gained ...

This week the National Youth Orchestra, an Official Partner of Classic FM, brought an orchestra of 90 teenagers to Blackpool Tower Ballroom, where they performed free concerts to more than 4,000 ...

Paul McCartney told a British court there were six reasons The Beatles should legally break up. One of them was the use of a harp in ‘The Long and Winding Road’.

Jessie Buckley returns to the big screen to play one of horror’s most iconic characters – The Bride! But her creation in 1935 birthed something far more ...

An emotive Oscar-winning score from cinema's maestro of movie music. The most successful movie composer ever, John Williams has penned some of the most emotional orchestral music of the past 40 years.

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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 - ...

John Williams proves just how scary two repeated notes can be in this ominous soundtrack. Rarely does a piece of film music seem to so perfectly capture the film's atmosphere. In the case of Jaws ...

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 ...

Beethoven’s music is all the more amazing because he wrote so much of it when he was almost or totally deaf. At the end of the premiere of the Ninth Symphony, the composer had to be turned around to ...