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

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.

Goldberg Variations - Aria Johann Sebastian Bach Download 'Goldberg Variations - Aria' on iTunes ...

Oboe Concerto in D minor (3) Alessandro Marcello Download 'Oboe Concerto in D minor (3)' on iTunes ...

String Quartet in Eb major Opus 44 No.3 Felix Mendelssohn ...

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Half-Scottish, half-Italian violinist Nicola Benedetti was born in West Kilbride on 20 July 1987. Today she is one of the world’s finest and most in-demand young musicians, and director of the ...

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Why is it human nature to want what we can’t have? In 1827, the 23-year-old Hector Berlioz attended a performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Odéon Theatre in Paris; Harriet Smithson, a charismatic ...

Antonio Vivaldi was one of the Baroque period's most gifted and prolific composers. But his life wasn't just about the music - find out about the women, the priesthood and how he died alone. A ...

An English tenor, a Puccini aria, and a television moment no one will forget... Almost 14 years ago, at the birth of the Got Talent television franchise of series, we were treated to an unforgettable ...