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

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

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

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

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

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

How many pieces of wood in a violin? What's the most expensive opera costume of all time? Which orchestra was booked to sail on the Titanic? Discover these random, bizarre and thoroughly interesting ...

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 Finn with a French name Born in 1865 with the resolutely Finnish-sounding name of Johan Julius Christian, Sibelius was known early on as Janne to his loved ones. While he was a student he felt ...

A viral photograph depicts a priest baptising a child using holy water from a toy water gun. But what really happened? Among the plethora of social distancing-inspired pictures which swept the ...

Pity the poor viola. Butt of all the jokes in the classical music world and maligned by string players everywhere. But we just can't help laughing at these viola jokes. Here are 12 of the best.

We take a tumble down history to discover the origins, intriguing meaning and full lyrics of the traditional rhyme. ‘Jack and Jill’ is an 18th-century English nursery rhyme. It tells of a boy named ...