Classic FM Live with Viking returns to the Royal Albert Hall for a 25th anniversary musical extravaganza! On Monday 20 ...

Among other award winners was Spanish violinist María Dueñas, who received two Awards, including Young Artist of the Year, ...

Dubai-born Shivankh Varun Varadharajan has broken the world record by correctly identifying 16 pieces by composers such as ...

Dan Walker and Charlotte Hawkins will host two special programmes to help keep anxious pets and their owners calm and relaxed ...

Lise Cristiani was the first recorded female cellist to perform publicly, at a time when women playing the cello was ...

A 24-year-old Japanese pianist was moved to tears during her own performance of Frédéric Chopin ’s Prelude, Op.28, No.15, ...

Two pieces of music by English Baroque composer Henry Purcell have been discovered by teams of musicologists in ...

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 ...

The oboe is officially one of the most difficult instruments to play. Oboists, we feel for you: and not just because of the double-reed misery, the duck noises, the tuning issues and Jeremy Irons ...

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.

The most bizarre composer facts Ever wanted to know some truly odd facts about the great composers? Some might've been embellished over the years, but we can't get enough of these strange and ...

Thirteen Redemptoristine nuns at a County Dublin monastery have mastered a viral dance challenge, to “cheer people up” in lockdown. Aged between 28 and 92, the sisters perform the Jerusalema dance ...