1. A child prodigy Joshua Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, on 9 December 1967. He began taking violin lessons at the age of four after his mother discovered that he had stretched rubber bands ...

The Classic FM Music Teacher of the Year Awards are back for 2026, with £20,000 of musical instruments and equipment up for ...

8. Second World War years By 1944, von Karajan was, in his own words, losing favor with the Nazi leadership, but he still conducted concerts in wartime Berlin. In the closing stages of the war, he and ...

Violinist Elina Vähälä was performing the finale of Bruch’s Violin Concerto with Sinfonia Lahti when conductor Matthew Halls ...

Composed between 1900 and 1901, Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 is often described as the greatest piano concerto ever written. After the disastrous premiere of Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 1 in 1897 ...

Tim Lihoreau is your host of weekend breakfast on Classic FM, with three hours of the most relaxing music to ease you gently into Saturday and Sunday mornings. Much-loved host of Classic FM’s More ...

Sheen will play court composer Antonio Salieri opposite It’s a Sin actor Callum Scott Howells as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Sheen previously played Mozart in the West End and on Broadway in 1998–9 and ...

People living with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) could have a new way to manage symptoms, thanks to English National Opera’s pioneering ENO Breathe programme. Originally ...