The meditative music of American composer Philip Glass is coming to London this summer, in the West End premiere of Tao of ...

Calling all film score fans! The Classic FM Movie Music Hall of Fame 2026 is now open… and we need your votes. Whether it’s a ...

The two-time Oscar-winning director told Jonathan Ross about his approach to scoring films and working with composer Ludwig Göransson on ‘The Odyssey’. “It’s really about finding collaborators,” Nolan ...

Literally the hardest, hardest, hardest thing I’ve ever had to learn to do. Being in a gladiator arena or hanging from a ...

How many pieces of wood in a violin? What's the most expensive opera costume of all time? Which orchestra was booked to sail on the Titanic? Discover these random, bizarre and thoroughly interesting ...

As a nine-year-old boy Antonin Dvořák became intoxicated with the sight, sound and smell of steam locomotives when a newly opened railway line from Prague to Kralupy passed through his hometown of ...

Matthew Bourne’s dazzling ballet The Car Man returns to London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre this summer, for a strictly limited ...

Two-time Oscar winner, Sir Anthony Hopkins, is releasing his second ever album of classical music, at the age of 88.

1. Hearing music from the womb Maxim Vengerov was born into a musical family on 20 August 1974 in Novosibirsk, Siberia. His mother sang and conducted, and his father played oboe in an orchestra. Maxim ...

10. The War of the Romantics The so-called War of the Romantics was basically a musical argument between composers like Wagner and Liszt, who represented a more radical approach to music, and more ...

The Film: The Oscar winning 1986 film tells the story of a Spanish Jesuit priest who goes into the South American jungle to build a mission and convert a community of Guarani indians whilst fighting ...

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) wrote his five-act allegorical drama Peer Gynt in 1867 while living in Italy. It tells the story of the downfall and subsequent redemption of a Norwegian peasant anti-hero.