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The Lord Of The Rings voted Classic FM listeners’ favourite film score

The music of John Williams also featured heavily in the poll.

Evening Standard · Aug 31

This Rarely Talked About Gregory Peck Film Is One Of The Best Westerns Ever Made

Have you seen this masterpiece of a western?

Cinemablend · Aug 30

From a forest to an all-star trio and the fires of hell – my pick of new music coming to the Proms this year

The world’s biggest classical music festival begins on Friday. Over eight weeks of sonic excursions and orchestral revelations there’s a huge range of premieres and contemporary music: here’s the concerts I won’t be missing

The Guardian - UK · Jul 15

Why has one of the world’s great conductors been shown the door?

Andris Nelsons is to leave the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The shock decision is strongly opposed by the players. What is going on, and what, should a music director’s role be? Plus: why Timothée Chalamet is an eejit

The Guardian - UK · Mar 11

“I didn't even mean to release it - I was working on another song and came up with the riff and then I just started freestyling”: A decade on, we analyse the inner workings of one of Beck’s most potent bangers

Released over a year ahead of its effervescent parent album Colors, Wow demonstrated that Beck’s penchant for genre-blurring was still in rude health

MusicRadar · Feb 9

Italy's national strike called by main union disrupts transport and school services

A national strike called by Italy’s largest trade union in protest against the government’s budget plans has widely disrupted transportation, health and school services across the country

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2025

Photos show Ennio Morricone's opera 'Partenope' as it premieres in Naples

Composer Ennio Morricone earned an Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2007, but his only opera gathered dust for decades. On Friday night, Naples’ Teatro San Carlo will stage “Partenope," inspired by the mythical siren who drowned herself after failing to enchant Ulysses, three decades after its composition.

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2025

'Partenope,' Ennio Morricone’s long-neglected opera, emerges to enchant Naples

At long last, vindication is at hand for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was as capable of breathing life into Italy’s grand theaters as gritty Hollywood films

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2025

"What were the skies like when you were young?": How The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds showed the world that sampling could be an art form

The story of the blissfully psychedelic bricolage that launched The Orb's career, introduced ambient house to the masses and even prompted a lawsuit from Rickie Lee Jones

MusicRadar · Dec 5, 2025

"I've always thought that plagiarism is creative": How The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds showed the world that sampling could be an art form

The story of the blissfully psychedelic bricolage that launched The Orb's career, introduced ambient house to the masses and even prompted a lawsuit from Rickie Lee Jones

MusicRadar · Dec 2, 2025