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 ...

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

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Main Theme Ennio Morricone Download 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Main Theme' on iTunes ...

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 ...

4. Saint-Saëns had a brilliant mind The composer’s formidable intellect was not limited to music. He had a profound interest in - and knowledge of - geology, botany, butterflies, and maths. He enjoyed ...

In his seven-section Requiem, the French composer Gabriel Fauré distilled some of the most beautiful melodies he ever composed. The creation was almost certainly a musical tribute to his father, who ...

Why is it human nature to want what we can’t have? In 1827, the 23-year-old Hector Berlioz attended a performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Odéon Theatre in Paris; Harriet Smithson, a charismatic ...

Adagio in E major K.261 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Download 'Adagio in E major K.261' on iTunes ...

Half-Scottish, half-Italian violinist Nicola Benedetti was born in West Kilbride on 20 July 1987. Today she is one of the world’s finest and most in-demand young musicians, and director of the ...

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, ...

Johann Strauss senior was a major figure in Viennese musical life – but nowadays, he’s not the Strauss most people remember. While Strauss the elder wrote some popular tunes (not least this, his ...