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

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David Garrett - 15 facts you never knew He's the long-haired violin virtuoso that blurred the lines between Mozart and Metallica - but how much do you really know about one of classical music's most ...

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

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 ...

Andante in C major for Flute & Orchestra Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Download 'Andante in C major for Flute & Orchestra' on iTunes ...

2. John Williams' early career Young John attended UCLA while studying composition privately with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Drafted in 1952, Williams spent three years conducting and arranging music ...

Khachaturian was just hitting his fiftieth birthday when he produced his music to the ballet Spartacus. It later became one of our favourite TV themes. The plot of the ballet had been around for some ...

Canteloube is a composer whose reputation today is based on a tiny number of works. Just as, in England, Butterworth was good friends with the more prominent Vaughan Williams, with whom he shared a ...

It was as a teenager that the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky was first inspired to write his orchestral poem A Night on the Bare Mountain, in 1867. He was an ambitious young man with dreams to ...

Classic FM has joined with Sky Arts to present Classic FM’s Rising Stars with Julian Lloyd Webber, a series of TV specials championing some of today’s most exciting young classical artists, hosted by ...