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What instruments make up an orchestra?

What instruments make up an orchestra?

Order of the Golden Spur

Why did the Pope award Mozart a Papal knighthood and the Order of the Golden Spur?

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How to choose the best radio for your budget

The Kanneh-Mason family

The Kanneh-Mason family teams up with Olivia Colman and Michael Morpurgo for new album

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Charles Hazlewood to present programme on Beethoven for Sky Arts

Rebecca: (L to R) Armie Hammer as Maxim de Winter, Lily James as Mrs. de Winter. Cr. KERRY BROWN/NETFLIX

‘Rebecca’ on Netflix: Who wrote the music and can you buy the soundtrack?

The BBC Proms

Everything you need to know about the 2020 season

Sitar player Anoushka Shankar

BBC Proms 2020: Live concert schedule

Last of the BBC Proms

Six of the best: Last Nights of the Proms

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Proms 2020: Full schedule

Katie Derham at the BBC Proms

BBC Proms 2020 on TV: Full schedule

Lockdown listening

Our pick of the concerts and operas to stream online

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The BBC Music Magazine Concert Livestream Calendar

Eric Whitacre Virtual Choir

How to join virtual orchestras, choirs and music masterclasses online

Music lessons and workshops for kids during lockdown

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Music news

The latest happenings from the classical music world

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Charities, schools and organisations can apply to win Jamie Cullum’s Yamaha Grand Piano

Conductor Domingo Hindoyan

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra announces first programme of live concerts since lockdown

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Music films announced as part of the programme for this year’s BFI London Film Festival

City of London Sinfonia returns to Southwark Cathedral for the first time since lockdown

City of London Sinfonia to return to Southwark Cathedral with two live concerts with audiences

Podcast

Top musicians share their musical passions with the BBC Music Magazine team

Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason on the Music to my Ears podcast from BBC Music Magazine

Music to my Ears: Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason

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Music to my Ears: Newsreader Zeb Soanes

Composer Sally Beamish on the Music to my Ears podcast from BBC Music Magazine

Music to my Ears: Composer Sally Beamish

Composer Jake Heggie on the Music to my Ears podcast from BBC Music Magazine

Music to my Ears: Composer Jake Heggie

Albums of the week

A selection of the best reviewed albums from the latest issue of BBC Music Magazine

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JS Bach: Cello Suites Nos 1-6, BWV 1007-1012

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John Adams: Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? etc

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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2; Handel Variations

Beethoven 250

Celebrate the great composer with fascinating articles, playlists, interviews and more…

10 Beethoven references in popular culture

Arabella Goddard

10 great Beethoven performers

Top 10 Beethoven places to visit

How did Beethoven cope with going deaf?

10 composers who were inspired by Beethoven

Beethoven: A guide to his symphonies

BBC Music Magazine's Recording of the Year

Greatest recordings

Our recommendations of essential additions to your listening library

William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet balcony scene

The best (and worst) recordings of Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet

Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy's recording of Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances is the greatest of all time

The best (and worst) recordings of Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances

Best recordings by pianist Imogen Cooper

Six of the best recordings by pianist Imogen Cooper

Guitarist Julian Bream dies aged 87

Julian Bream: the British classical guitarist’s best recordings

More great recordings

The great composers

Explore the lives and works of classical music's finest composers

How did Anton Webern die

How did Anton Webern die?

Why did Bach go to prison

Why did Bach go to prison?

(FILES) Picture dated 20 July 1988 of legendary jazz and blues singer Nina Simone taking her breakfast at a Juan-Les-Pins hotel during the Jazz festival in the French southern Riviera town. Simone died 21 April 2003 at the age of 70 ather home in southern France, said her manager in a statement. AFP PHOTO Michel GANGNE (Photo credit should read MICHEL GANGNE/AFP via Getty Images)

Food, glorious food: Nine funny photos of famous classical musicians eating their favourite foods

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Composer Andrea Tarrodi on her synaesthesia, using electronics and writing for ballet

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Festivals and live performances you shouldn’t miss

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