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.

Oboe Concerto in D minor Opus 9 No.2 (2) Tomaso Albinoni Download 'Oboe Concerto in D minor Opus 9 No.2 (2)' 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 ...

The Planets Opus 32 (2) Gustav Holst Download 'The Planets Opus 32 (2)' on iTunes ...

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 ...

Piano Concerto No.1 in Bb minor Opus 23 (1) Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky Download 'Piano Concerto No.1 in Bb minor Opus 23 (1)' 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 ...