Jovan Adepo plays the trumpet in Babylon, while Brendan Gleeson plays the violin in The Banshees of Inisherin

All the Oscar-nominated scores at the 2023 Academy Awards and what they sound like

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Oscars

Pianist Karim Kamar is joined by an unexpected, pocket-sized duet partner...

Classical pianist plays impromptu duet with playful toddler in middle of train station

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Discover Music

‘Invalid piano’ played by bedridden invalids is the bizarre invention of the day

Pianos for bedridden musicians were real inventions from the 1930s

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Discover Music

A cappella vocal ensemble The King’s Singers say students from a Florida Christian college sent them messages to apologise for the school’s shock concert cancellation, with some students coming out to members of the choir.

The King’s Singers say Christian college students ‘came out’ to them after shock concert cancellation

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The King's Singers

Remembering Topol’s ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ performance

Remembering Chaim Topol with his iconic rendition of ‘If I Were a Rich Man’ in Fiddler on the Roof

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Videos

The King’s Singers say their concert at a Florida college was cancelled over concerns about their ‘lifestyle’.

The King’s Singers say Christian college cancelled their concert over ‘concerns about sexuality’

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The King's Singers

Tony Ann turns the iPhone alarm into a sweeping soundscape

That jarring iPhone alarm tone has been turned into a sweeping piano fantasia

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Videos

10 women who changed the classical music world forever

10 women who changed the classical music world forever

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Women in Music

Esther Abrami and HER ensemble play in celebration of International Women’s Day

Esther Abrami and Her Ensemble spotlight French composer, Louise Farrenc, for International Women’s Day

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Videos

Ludwig van Beethoven deafness

If Beethoven was completely deaf, how did he compose music?

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Beethoven

Sistema Scotland’s Big Noise programme provides free music tuition for young people in deprived areas of the country

Scottish government to give £1.5million to save children’s orchestras at risk of closure

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Jonathan Ross joins Classic FM as brand new host of Saturday Night at the Movies

Jonathan Ross joins Classic FM as brand new host of Saturday Night at the Movies

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Lang Lang astonished by 94-year-old pianist’s ‘powerful’ concerto at Glasgow station

Lang Lang astonished by 94-year-old pianist’s ‘powerful’ concerto at Glasgow station

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Lang Lang

The inside of a cello

Mystical interiors of musical instruments revealed in artist’s striking photography

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Discover Music

Zeb Soanes reads an extract from ‘The Very Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’

Zeb Soanes reads an extract from ‘The Very Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’

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Frederic Chopin’s ‘Happy Birthday’?

What if Frédéric Chopin had written ‘Happy Birthday’?

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Chopin

Young flutists during a music lesson Our Lady & St. Werburgh's Catholic Primary School in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire UK

80 percent of schoolchildren say more could be done to engage young people with orchestral music

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra