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Salzburg has hit a bum note with its latest Mozart tribute, after 210 golden statuettes of the composer disappeared from an ...

The most bizarre composer facts Ever wanted to know some truly odd facts about the great composers? Some might've been embellished over the years, but we can't get enough of these strange and ...

The 67-year-old will be the main act to perform at the inaugural Land of Song Festival, held in Cardiff’s Principality ...

Internationally-acclaimed piano player, Yuja Wang, is the subject of a new documentary, titled YUJA. One of the most dynamic ...

Rossini’s 1817 opera The Thieving Magpie received a rare boost in the British tabloid press when a judge claimed not to have heard of the footballer Paul ‘Gazza’ Gascoigne, musing, ‘Is there not an ...

Pomp & Circumstance March No.5 in C major Opus 39 Edward Elgar Download 'Pomp & Circumstance March No.5 in C major Opus 39' on iTunes ...

Most of us would be hard pressed to describe the characters, plot or musical development of Delibes’s three-act opera Lakmé. Its resurgent popularity in the 1990s was down to one thing: the use of one ...

Join Myleene Klass for Calm Classics, Fridays and Saturdays from 10pm-2am. Myleene Klass offer a sublime selection of relaxing music on Calm Classics, designed to ease away the stresses and strains of ...

'The Watermill' was written in 1958 and originally composed for oboe and string orchestra – though it can also be played on clarinet. The undulating orchestral accompaniment evokes the gentle flow of ...

A light music classic, well-known to veteran radio listeners. Ronald Binge was a British composer and arranger of light music. This is probably his best known composition. When it was first played by ...

It’s a medieval torture device that was used – once upon a more primitive time – for publicly shaming bad musicians and other disturbers of the peace. The contraption, which is essentially a heavy ...