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Best funeral music and funeral hymns

Best classical music and hymn choices for funerals

Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 guide

A guide to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1

Why did Malcolm Arnold write his Fourth Symphony in response to the Notting Hill Race Riots?

Why did Malcolm Arnold write his Fourth Symphony in response to the Notting Hill Race Riots?

Mozart's Piano Concertos best recordings

The best recordings of Mozart’s Piano Concertos

What is the point of John Cage 4 33?

What is the point of John Cage’s 4’33”?

(Illustration: Paul Blow)

10 impossible classical masterpieces

The Last Post: what are its origins and when is it played?

The Last Post: what is its history and why is it played during Remembrance Day?

Five of the best musical settings of British poems

When did Schubert compose his ninth symphony

Five of the best works by Schubert

Puccini's Tosca guide

Puccini’s Tosca: A guide to when and why this dramatic opera was composed

Silent Night lyrics

What are the lyrics to Silent Night?

what are the lyrics to god save the queen

What are the lyrics to the UK’s national anthem, ‘God Save The Queen’?

Andrew Lloyd Webber recording session with an 80 piece orchestra at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. April 2021

The best musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber

American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990, standing) and composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, working on their musical, 'West Side Story', New York City, 1956. (Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The best musicals by Leonard Bernstein

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Hooked on Classics: how Mozart and drum machines took classics to the disco… and the bank