Among other award winners was Spanish violinist María Dueñas, who received two Awards, including Young Artist of the Year, ...

Dubai-born Shivankh Varun Varadharajan has broken the world record by correctly identifying 16 pieces by composers such as ...

Dan Walker and Charlotte Hawkins will host two special programmes to help keep anxious pets and their owners calm and relaxed ...

Two pieces of music by English Baroque composer Henry Purcell have been discovered by teams of musicologists in ...

Lise Cristiani was the first recorded female cellist to perform publicly, at a time when women playing the cello was ...

A 24-year-old Japanese pianist was moved to tears during her own performance of Frédéric Chopin ’s Prelude, Op.28, No.15, ...

The oboe is officially one of the most difficult instruments to play. Oboists, we feel for you: and not just because of the double-reed misery, the duck noises, the tuning issues and Jeremy Irons ...

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 contraption, which is essentially a heavy ...

A viral photograph depicts a priest baptising a child using holy water from a toy water gun. But what really happened? Among the plethora of social distancing-inspired pictures which swept the ...

Classic FM at the Movies with Jonathan Ross 7pm - 9pm ...

2. Mozart's first concert and a European tour (1762 - 1765) The young Mozart was, as we know, an early starter when it came to music. But he was especially young to be a concert pianist in 1762, and ...

We explore the origins, history and lyrics of one of the most popular children’s songs in the English-speaking world. Humpy Dumpty sat on the wall is one of the nation’s most enduringly popular ...