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Is Timothée Chalamet really singing and playing in new Bob Dylan biopic?

Is Timothée Chalamet really singing and playing in new Bob Dylan biopic?

Doreen Carwithen is known as the world’s first full-time female film composer

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Bill Skarsgård worked with an opera singer to produce terrifying ‘vampire voice’ for Nosferatu

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Dan Middleton, better known on YouTube as DanTDM, joins Classic FM

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10 pieces of classical music that will 100% change your life

10 pieces of classical music that will 100% change your life

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The best classical music playlists to suit your every mood

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Maxim Vengerov – here’s why musicians use vibrato

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Violinist name Ava Bahari plays with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

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Guest conductor, Tim Schultheis, truly came to sleigh at this orchestral concert...

Audience member conducts ‘Sleigh Ride’, stealing the show in joyful moment

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Cat piano prodigy surprises owner with tuneful solo.

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Peter Schickele Beethoven 5 parody

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Rowan Atkinson, Mr Bean, performs during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium July 27, 2012.

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Cat wanders on stage during Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony at Istanbul Music Festival

Curious cat wanders on stage during Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony in Istanbul

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Saint Cecilia Playing The Organ.

Who was St Cecilia? Meet the patron saint of music and musicians

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Who is Toshiko Akiyoshi? Meet the Japanese pianist and composer who transformed jazz music

Who is Toshiko Akiyoshi? Meet the Japanese pianist and composer who transformed jazz music

Four women conductors lead the Met Opera in one week – in historic first

Four women conductors lead the Met Opera in one week – in historic first

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The Donne Foundation has successfully set the Guinness World Record for the Longest Acoustic Music Live-Streamed Concert, with a 26-hour concert of music by women and non-binary composers.

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Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn

Who was Fanny Mendelssohn, the unsung composer whose music was published under her brother’s name?

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Can you answer these quiz questions using just the musical notes?

Can you answer these quiz questions using just music notes?

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Who are Sideshow Bob and Bugs Bunny playing in these operatic parodies...

Can you guess the opera these cartoon characters are singing?

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The Vienna New Year's Concert.

Vienna New Year’s Concert: what music was played?

On Christmas Eve 1914, WWI paused when troops sang carols across enemy limes

On Christmas Eve 1914, WWI paused when troops sang carols across enemy limes

Princess of Wales attends the ‘Together At Christmas’ carol service at Westminster Abbey

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The three films of the Christmas season. Well, three films.

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Two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree...

Which are ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ and what are the lyrics to the Christmas carol?

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O Little Town of Bethlehem

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Gladiator II composer Harry Gregson-Williams on the ‘pretty rude sound’ that made it into the score

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Jacqueline du Pre, who brought the Concerto to prominence in her breakthrough recording with John Barbirolli and the LSO in 1965.

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The Royal Albert Hall with Christmas Tree, Illuminated at night.

15 best classical Christmas concerts across the UK in 2024

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Choristers from Salisbury Cathedral Choir

What are the lyrics to ‘While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks’, and what’s the story?

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Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

What are the lyrics to ‘Jesus Christ the Apple Tree’, and who composed the carol?

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Silent Night lyrics

What are the lyrics to ‘Silent Night’, and what’s the story of the Christmas carol?

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The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge performs at A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

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88-year-old man passes Grade 8 piano after 67-year break

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