Every weekday from 4pm, Margherita Taylor provides the perfect soundtrack to your afternoon, keeping you company through to the evening with some brilliant classical music. Margherita offers all the ...

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Edinburgh International Festival bans phones after they interrupted every single concert in its 2025 chamber series.

Users of Swedish public transport were treated to a musical interlude in their journeys, snubbing the escalator for a tuneful trip up the stairs. Faced with the choice of taking the stairs or ...

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Composer Julian Nott tells Classic FM how he wrote one of British film and television’s most iconic theme tunes.

Classical composers are sometimes just as good at quotes as they are at music. Take a look at these amazing, inspirational quotes from some of the greatest composers of all time.

Generally speaking, the Baroque period is when the orchestra was born, opera kicked off in a big way and the concerto gave soloists the chance to properly show off. From the period's beginnings in the ...

Listen live to Classic FM online radio. Discover classical music and find out more about the best classical composers, musicians and their works.

Listen live to Classic FM online radio. Discover classical music and find out more about the best classical composers, musicians and their works.

3. The nation's favourite classical work Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2 of 1901 is often described as the greatest ever written. Its subsequent use in the film Brief Encounter has made it a ...