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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

From Einaudi to Richter, these famous contemporary composers all studied with the legendary avant garde composer.

Photos from the spectacular Classic FM Live at the Movies with Viking, featuring star soloists alongside The Bach Choir and ...

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

As the world pays its respects to the late head of the Catholic church, we reflect on the music and musicians that will be ...

The classical and acoustic guitars’ differences mean they lend themselves typically to different genres of music. Spanish and ...

What do Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ronald Reagan and Ignacy Jan Paderewski have in common? Before they became leaders of their ...