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French singer and actor Claudine Longet has died at age 84. She became infamous after being charged with the fatal shooting ...

The Chiaroscuro Quartet was founded in 2005 at London’s Royal College of Music by four young string players who shared a ...

The Symphony Club of Waterford brings the world of young Mozart to the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity within in ...

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George Mahon is a 30-year-old songwriter from Glasgow who cannot read music. But he can hum a tune and rhyme a verse, and a month ago he hummed into a recording machine, packed the record and a verse ...

In tonight's Classical Mixtape, we begin with the beautiful Adagio from Bach’s 1st Brandenburg concerto, which is followed by Sibelius’ Berceuse for violin and piano. There’s also a movement from John ...

The instrument flipped three times in the air before Vahala cushioned its fall with her foot. A British conductor gave audiences rather more than they bargained for when he accidentally sent a 1 ...

The dramatic moment a conductor accidentally knocks a £1million 18th century violin out of a soloist's hands sending it crashing to the floor has been captured on camera. The incident unfolded during ...

A BRITISH conductor knocked a £1million violin out of the hands of a top soloist after swinging his arms too vigorously during a concerto. Maestro Matthew Halls looked on in horror after clipping the ...

On April 14, 2026, in Sichuan, China, @Catretirementhome shared a video of a funny interaction with a Minuet cat inside the kitchen. In the video, a woman is preparing and cutting meat while the cat ...

In the 1970s the now-classic cycle from the Beaux Arts did much to rehabilitate Haydn’s largely neglected keyboard trios. Half a century on, the Trio Gaspard are setting new standards of recreative ...