The Victorian era saw a proliferation of classical music organisations, beginning with the Philharmonic Society, 1813, and the Royal Academy of Music, 1822, both keenly promoting Beethoven's music.

This film about Adam Kinzinger, the politician of the title, benefits from the involvement of the progressive filmmaker Steve Pink. By Alissa Wilkinson In Nick Park’s latest charming stop-motion ...

We’ve got a very sweet holiday treat for you today: the ENTIRE ballet of “The Nutcracker” by Tchaikovsky. Join Clara on her adventure to the Kingdom of Sweets for today’s Midday ...

THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR CLASSICAL ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

Compiled by the Official Charts Company, the UK's biggest specialist classical albums of the week, based on sales of digital bundles, CDs, vinyl and other formats, across a seven day period.

The data displayed for this chart goes back to 1996, however we hope to be able to offer deeper historic information at a future point ...

“They only made 20 of them at the time. I used that one on ‘Memphis’ and I still use it today.” So said Lonnie Mack in 1968, five years after his Top 5 US hit with that great track, which ...