The 30-year-old actor and star of A Complete Unknown and Marty Supreme told his Interstellar co-star Matthew McConaughey, “I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera. Things where it’s like, ‘Hey, ...

To mark International Women’s Day on Classic FM, the superstar mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins OBE will present a special programme to celebrate the most influential women in classical music.

Described by acclaimed violinist Daniel Hope as a “tremendous talent”, the 25-year-old Berlin-based cellist gained ...

Hiromi, Tiffany Poon and Alice Sara Ott are among the star pianists to join the latest season of Channel 4’s hit talent show.

This week the National Youth Orchestra, an Official Partner of Classic FM, brought an orchestra of 90 teenagers to Blackpool Tower Ballroom, where they performed free concerts to more than 4,000 ...

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, ...

Jessie Buckley returns to the big screen to play one of horror’s most iconic characters – The Bride! But her creation in 1935 birthed something far more ...

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 ...

The most bizarre composer facts Ever wanted to know some truly odd facts about the great composers? Some might've been embellished over the years, but we can't get enough of these strange and ...

3. The man behind the Gymnopedies The young Maurice Ravel was captivated by new music coming out of Russia, particularly Rimsky-Korsakov’s. He was also introduced by his father to Erik Satie, pictured ...

1. A Yorkshire lad John Barry was one of the all-time great masters of movie music. His career spanned some 50 years - from Midnight Cowboy and Born Free to Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa - ...

It seems Beethoven was forever reeling off wise, philosophical quotes about music. As the world marks 250 years of the German revolutionary, here are some of his most memorable lines. A quarter of a ...