You’re our favourite too, Margot 🫶
Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell tell Classic FM about their favourite classical and film music, on the release of their new film ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’.
📻 Classic FM at the Movies | Saturday 20 September, 7pm
A theme that just makes you feel like you’re flying... 🚲
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Michael Seal performs John Williams’ ‘Flying Theme’ from ‘E.T.’ at Classic FM Live. Watch the broadcast of the concert on Sky Arts on 25 May.
Cheers to that! 🎻
Composer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber has raised over half a million pounds for music education by selling the final bottles of his wine collection.
The proceeds will go to the Music in Secondary Schools Trust, which oversees Lloyd Webber’s Music in Schools Programme.
The collection raised a total of £517,910, which will be used to provide free instruments, weekly tuition and a classical music curriculum in disadvantaged schools. It is estimated that the money raised will allow a further 4,000 students to participate, in addition to the nearly 30,000 students the programme has supported to date.
Lloyd Webber said: “The beneficial power of music education in schools has long proved to be a no-brainer. Quite simply, music empowers young people. From academic achievement to solving social behaviour and mental health issues, the benefits to the whole community, not just the young students, are demonstrably proven.”
It’s hard work backstage at the opera 😮💨
Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina keeps everything feeling, and smelling, fresh with this must-have item in her bag.
Watch the full video on YouTube.
Happy birthday, Monteverdi! The Italian composer and string player served as a crucial bridge between Renaissance and Baroque music. Though the actual day he was born is uncertain, he was baptised in Milan on this day, 459 years ago. ❤️
A rare discovery! 💎
A previously unknown song written by a 20-something Vaughan Williams has been unearthed in an unlisted library archive box.
‘Before the Mirror’ is a setting for voice and piano of a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, believed to have been written around 1899, and has been verified by the Vaughan Williams Foundation.
The manuscript was found in the archive of Morley College London, and is thought to have come from the estate of Dulcie Nutting, who was a student of Holst’s and later taught at the college.
Read more via the link in our bio.
📷 Vaughan Williams Foundation & Morley College London
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This just in - it’s 1926! 🕰️
Things in classical music were changing fast 100 years ago. Dan Walker is here to report on the latest…
📻 Classic FM Breakfast with Dan Walker | Weekdays, 6.30am
Give us a piece you think everyone should hear at least once in their lifetime, and why. 🤔
📷: Michael Seal conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Classic FM Live.
