Join us for special concerts and musical premieres to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day on Classic FM. On Thursday 8 May ...

From The Habanera to the Toreador Song, Carmen contains some of opera’s most well-known tunes and tells the story of the ...

Zak, a young pianist from Chapeltown, wowed judges in Sheffield on the latest episode of Channel 4’s The Piano.

From enticing myths about what’s been said about it, to Ravel’s own oscillation between despair and gratitude for the work, we delve into the famous orchestral piece, Boléro, and try to unpack its ...

In 1941, while imprisoned at Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, a Jewish violin maker built an instrument that would go on to ...

Broadcaster and comedian Sue Perkins returns to Classic FM for a thrilling new travel series, reaching the Galápagos Islands ...

The Classic FM Music Teacher of the Year Awards are back for 2025, with £20,000 of musical instruments and equipment up for grabs thanks to Viking. The Classic FM Music Teacher of the Year Awards in ...

Italian composer Luciano Berio (1925-2003) is most famous for his experimental avant garde music, including serial compositions, pieces with electronic and pre-recorded spoken elements, and aleatoric ...