The family were at the Carlo Felice Theatre in Genoa, Italy, where Francesco was conducting Puccini ’s opera La bohème. In a quiet moment, Dad popped his son on the conductor’s podium located in the ...

Dzurko, a 25-year-old pianist from Canada who has just won first prize in the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition, ...

Every morning this week on air, we’re revealing the winners of the Classic FM Music Teacher of the Year Awards.

One of this generation’s star organists has taken to the composer’s famous ‘Organ Symphony’. 29-year-old Anna Lapwood is ...

On the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth, the medieval building and organ combine to showcase Gustav Holst’s most famous work. Imagine flying though Salisbury Cathedral, with its structure ...

As we celebrate the English composer’s 150th anniversary, we reflect on ten of the best works he wrote, including The Planets and The Bells film score. English composer Gustav Holst is famous for his ...

A video featuring the great composer at the keys has come to light, and his playing is as incredibly virtuosic and mind-blowingly fast as we had hoped. A video has come to light, featuring the great ...

Gustav Holst’s most famous and beloved work, The Planets, is a musical exploration of the planets that make up our solar system. The great English composer assigned characters and a subtitle to each ...

The range of a soprano singer, the highest voice type in classical music, usually ranges between middle C (C4) and high C (C6). However, some artists can sing higher using what has been coined the ...