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Classic FM Live with Viking is returning to the Royal Albert Hall in October 2026! Tickets are available now via the Royal ...

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

Symphony No.38 in D major (2) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Download 'Symphony No.38 in D major (2)' on iTunes ...

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 ...

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

The Welsh composer Karl Jenkins – almost as famous for his remarkable moustache as for his music – is, quite simply, a phenomenon in contemporary music. And this, his Mass for Peace, is the primary ...

Shostakovich was most definitely a light-and-shade composer. On the one hand, we have the intense, expansive orchestral works, full of grand political gestures and complex musical ideas. On the other, ...

At the age of 22, Johann van Beethoven secured an appointment as court musician, due to his fine tenor voice. To supplement his small income, he gave singing and piano lessons. In 1767 he married ...

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. New York's Musical Courier was not so far from the mark when it reported in 1897: ...