Ortega returns to the cello, much to the disapproval of the new Nevermore music teacher Isadora Capri, played by Billie Piper ...

Opera houses aren’t just places to listen to the world’s most beautiful music – they are also some of the world’s most ...

During the study, participants who were exposed to jazz, rap and rock music at mealtimes chose unhealthier, more calorific ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer spoke to Classic FM’s Dan Walker about the role of music in the UK curriculum, the life skills students can gain from a musical education, and his own relationship with ...

He’s up there with John Williams as the best-known film composer in the world. But what are Hans Zimmer’s greatest soundtracks to date?

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Anna Lapwood – the outgoing Director of Music at Pembroke College Cambridge and now the first official organist of the Royal ...

Holst: 15 facts about the great composer There’s much more to know about the life and music of Gustav Holst than just his most famous orchestral suite, The Planets.

Nobody on record has managed to stand in the world’s quietest room for a whole hour. In 2015, Microsoft built the quietest place on earth. But while it may sound like a sanctuary of meditative bliss, ...

Award-winning American violinist and conductor Joshua Bell is referred to as the 'Poet of the Violin' ...

Flute of Shame. Picture: Joe Routon/Facebook 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 ...

Ravel: 15 facts about the great composer He wrote the ice skaters’ favourite Bolero, a jazzy Piano Concerto and a Pavane for a Dead Princess. Find out more about the complex composer Maurice Ravel.