Classic FM
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The UK’s favourite classical music station. Ask your smart speaker to “play Classic FM” or listen on @GlobalPlayer.
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Canines of Classic FM, assemble! 🐕
Every weekday morning, Dan Walker highlights a human and their hound on Dan Walker’s Dog Walker, on Classic FM Breakfast.
Let us know a bit about you and your dog for your chance of a shoutout!
It’s Vienna, 1824. Beethoven is on stage, baton poised, ready to conduct his ‘Choral’ Symphony No.9 – a work he tragically cannot hear. How did it come to this?
Join Richard Armitage for ‘Genius of Joy: The Story of Beethoven’s Ninth’ on Monday 6 May at 7pm.
Beethoven, as if he were among us today...
🎨 by Hadi Karimi
classicfm.com/composers/beet…
Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony... a work that changed music – and technology – forever. 💿
Join us on Monday 6 May to celebrate on the eve of its 200th anniversary, with two exclusive programmes starring Hollywood actor Richard Armitage and Beethoven expert John Suchet.
200 years since the first performance of Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No.9 in Vienna, join us for a very special radio programme narrated by Richard Armitage, about the story behind the symphony and its joyous finale, the ‘Ode to Joy’. 📻
Listen on Monday 6 May, 7pm.
What a story! What music! First we create the trauma of the first performance and then I take you through it movements by movement. Unmissable radio 7pm-10pm next Monday 6th May Classic FM
.Classic FM I went home with the 9th in my ears. Fascinating story of the first performance… imagine what it was like hearing this masterpiece for the very first time? 🎵
Every morning this week, join Alexander Armstrong for his Album of the Week – a fresh take on Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’ by violinist Luka Faulisi, who, at just 21, has been described as ‘one of the most promising young violinists of his generation’. 🎻
(📷 Moricette Schlosser)
Morning! With you to start the day on Classic FM
How much great music is there? This much... and that's a lot - do join me!
