Star Wars performed by a double bass quartet

A double bass quartet playing the Imperial March from Star Wars is as monumental as you’d expect

John Williams

Etta James

Watch: 'At Last' by Etta James played by a string quartet

Piotr Beczala recording on antique equipment

Watch: modern opera stars recorded their voice onto wax cylinders

Piano Genie

Google’s new piano gadget means ANYONE can improvise classical music

Nessun Dorma

'Nessun Dorma' for solo piano is completely breathtaking

Puccini

Dvorak and Black Eyed Peas

Someone has just mixed Dvořák’s New World Symphony with the Black Eyed Peas – and it actually works

'Up' by a string quartet

The ‘Up’ theme tune, but it’s played by a string quartet

Nessun jaw-ma

A hilarious tenor chin puppet mimes Pavarotti’s ‘Nessun dorma’

Luciano Pavarotti

Aida Garifullina in the Forbidden City, Beijing

Watch 'Carmina Burana' performed against the stunning backdrop of the Forbidden City in Beijing

Melodica Men

Rossini’s Barber of Seville, but it’s played by two unbelievably jolly melodicas

Montserrat Caballé

This breath-taking performance of 'Casta Diva' is how we want to remember Montserrat Caballé

Discover Music

Elgar's Nimrod in a multi-tracked version for bassoon

It's Elgar's Nimrod – but played on six bassoons

Elgar

shouting conductor

This conductor just started plain yelling in the middle of Scheherazade

Rimsky-Korsakov

Visualisation of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

This visualisation of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata is REALLY intense

Beethoven

why opera singers use vibrato - Maria Callas

Why do opera singers use so much vibrato?

Discover Music

Young opera singer on Holland's Got Talent

9-year-old girl STUNS viewers by singing ‘O mio babbino caro’ on Holland’s Got Talent

Puccini

Lady Gaga on The Graham Norton Show

Watch: Lady Gaga tried to play the theremin – and it sounded really weird