Join us for Great British Orchestras Week on Classic FM

Join us for Great British Orchestras Week on Classic FM

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News & Weather

Egypt’s orchestra for blind women is challenging stereotypes with incredible music-making

Egypt’s orchestra for blind women is challenging stereotypes with incredible music-making

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Discover Music

Beethoven’s Für Elise, but it’s for fiery flamenco guitar quartet

Fiery flamenco guitar quartet plays Beethoven’s Für Elise with panache

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Beethoven

Frankfurt Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra perform stairwell concerts

The orchestra moving their concerts from halls to stairwells, for pandemic times

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Coronavirus

£400m for struggling arts sector announced in Rishi Sunak’s 2021 budget

Musicians still ‘falling through the gaps’ as £400m announced for struggling arts sector

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Coronavirus

Beyoncé sings the US National Anthem in 2019

When Beyoncé sang the US National Anthem a cappella to combat miming criticism. And absolutely nailed it.

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Videos

This AI has reconstructed actual Rachmaninov playing his own piano piece

This AI has reconstructed actual Rachmaninov playing his own piano piece

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Rachmaninov

Beethoven Orchestra Bonn has been named as the first Goodwill Ambassador of UN Climate Change

An orchestra has been named as the first Goodwill Ambassador of UN Climate Change

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Beethoven

‘Deep Nostalgia’ AI composers

‘Creepy’ new AI brings great classical composers to life with deepfakery

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Videos

What if Chopin had written ‘Happy Birthday’?

What if Chopin had written ‘Happy Birthday’?

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Chopin

New York Metropolitan Opera’s musicians haven’t been paid since April

Two-thirds of New York City’s arts and culture jobs have disappeared

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Coronavirus

Violinist Nicola Benedetti has announced a new series of ‘With Nicky’

‘With Nicky’: Nicola Benedetti’s educational violin videos with practice tips, techniques and support

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Nicola Benedetti

Fiji rugby league team sing a heartfelt hymn

Fijian rugby league team sing a heartfelt hymn from balconies of quarantine hotel

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Videos

AI pianist plays ‘unplayable’ black MIDI music

This AI pianist performed an 'unplayable' piano piece and it's terrifying

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Discover Music

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Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason and cellist Sheku, talk all things lockdown, concert nerves and practice with Julian Lloyd Webber, ahead of his new show on Classic FM.

‘You know there are invisible people watching’ – pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason on streamed classical music

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Washington school band rehearses in pop-up tents to curb spread of COVID-19

Washington school band rehearses in pop-up tents to curb spread of COVID-19

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Coronavirus

Watch Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Gary Barlow perform a stunning pop/classical rendition of ‘Hallelujah’

Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason joins singer Gary Barlow for a sensational duet on ‘Hallelujah’

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason