Classic FM News

Coachloads of concertgoers had braved the perilous weather for an evening of Christmas carols, classical overtures, the Hallelujah Chorus - and, of course, Frosty the Snowman.

Bedford singer's debut record A "tremendous fight" with cancer and the music world has finally paid off for a woman as she launched another album to raise money for charity.

RAYMOND Gubbay, the classical impresario, will make his debut at The O2 this month.

Classic FM says John Williams' music to Harry Potter is "the most loved children's music, as voted for by you." Well, maybe not you.

John Williams' Harry Potter theme has been voted the most popular classical music for children.

The fragmentation of radio during recent decades has had two noticeable affects.

Emma Kirkby is a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. That's not the least of her aristocratic appellations: She is also lauded in her press materials as the "Queen of Early Music." She was named "Artist of the Year" in 1999 by Britain's Classic FM.

ABU DHABI // The Abu Dhabi Media Company will launch the country's first classical music radio station, Abu Dhabi Classic FM, tomorrow.

Contrary to popular belief, "classical" music is not dull, static or lifeless. Rather, it is a dynamic creative event that is as fresh as its most recent performance.

MUSIC: A rare chance to see 70s cult band Deaf School in concert, and an ever rarer chance to see the Everyman auditorium done out like a cabaret show with tables for the audience to sit at.

Time was when you couldn't turn on Radio 3 without hearing Emma Kirkby, the quintessential voice of "early music". Time was when you couldn't turn on Radio 3 without hearing Emma Kirkby, the quintessential voice of "early music". And Kirkby's voice seemed to have come out of nowhere, because a vibrato-free soprano was an affront to everything the ...

Radio audiences are turning to the soothing properties of classical music as a means of coping with the traumas brought on by the economic downturn, gloomy weather and summer exams, according to official listening statistics released yesterday.

Radio audiences are turning to the soothing properties of classical music as a means of coping with the traumas brought on by the economic downturn, gloomy weather and summer exams, according to official listening statistics released yesterday.

All the UK's national radio stations and many local services will stop broadcasting on analogue by the end of 2015, according to ambitious switch-off targets unveiled by the government today.