The meditative music of American composer Philip Glass is coming to London this summer, in the West End premiere of Tao of ...

Calling all film score fans! The Classic FM Movie Music Hall of Fame 2026 is now open… and we need your votes. Whether it’s a ...

The two-time Oscar-winning director told Jonathan Ross about his approach to scoring films and working with composer Ludwig Göransson on ‘The Odyssey’. “It’s really about finding collaborators,” Nolan ...

Literally the hardest, hardest, hardest thing I’ve ever had to learn to do. Being in a gladiator arena or hanging from a ...

Matthew Bourne’s dazzling ballet The Car Man returns to London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre this summer, for a strictly limited ...

1. Hearing music from the womb Maxim Vengerov was born into a musical family on 20 August 1974 in Novosibirsk, Siberia. His mother sang and conducted, and his father played oboe in an orchestra. Maxim ...

Two-time Oscar winner, Sir Anthony Hopkins, is releasing his second ever album of classical music, at the age of 88.

Oboe Concerto in D minor Opus 9 No.2 (2) Tomaso Albinoni Download 'Oboe Concerto in D minor Opus 9 No.2 (2)' on iTunes ...

Jane Jones revisits some pure entertainment from Handel. I have been wondering lately how much of Handel’s popular and accomplished pieces now suffer from a casual familiarity which blunts our ...

As a nine-year-old boy Antonin Dvořák became intoxicated with the sight, sound and smell of steam locomotives when a newly opened railway line from Prague to Kralupy passed through his hometown of ...

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. Haydn wrote 107 symphonies in total, as well as 83 string quartets, ...

Saturdays 3pm-6pm. Join Alan for three hours of perfect classical music, plus his legendary Titchmarsh Teaser question after 4pm, with more brilliant music to come after 5pm. And don’t forget Alan’s ...