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Classic FM says John Williams' music to Harry Potter is "the most loved children's music, as voted for by you." Well, maybe not you.

John Williams' Harry Potter theme has been voted the most popular classical music for children.

The fragmentation of radio during recent decades has had two noticeable affects.

Emma Kirkby is a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. That's not the least of her aristocratic appellations: She is also lauded in her press materials as the "Queen of Early Music." She was named "Artist of the Year" in 1999 by Britain's Classic FM.

ABU DHABI // The Abu Dhabi Media Company will launch the country's first classical music radio station, Abu Dhabi Classic FM, tomorrow.

Contrary to popular belief, "classical" music is not dull, static or lifeless. Rather, it is a dynamic creative event that is as fresh as its most recent performance.

MUSIC: A rare chance to see 70s cult band Deaf School in concert, and an ever rarer chance to see the Everyman auditorium done out like a cabaret show with tables for the audience to sit at.

Time was when you couldn't turn on Radio 3 without hearing Emma Kirkby, the quintessential voice of "early music". Time was when you couldn't turn on Radio 3 without hearing Emma Kirkby, the quintessential voice of "early music". And Kirkby's voice seemed to have come out of nowhere, because a vibrato-free soprano was an affront to everything the ...

Radio audiences are turning to the soothing properties of classical music as a means of coping with the traumas brought on by the economic downturn, gloomy weather and summer exams, according to official listening statistics released yesterday.

Radio audiences are turning to the soothing properties of classical music as a means of coping with the traumas brought on by the economic downturn, gloomy weather and summer exams, according to official listening statistics released yesterday.

All the UK's national radio stations and many local services will stop broadcasting on analogue by the end of 2015, according to ambitious switch-off targets unveiled by the government today.

Coverage of classical awards event pulls in 1.2 million viewers and an 11% share, winning its late-night slot ) Classical Brit Awards: Placido Domingo with Jose Carreras.

COURTESY of the popular music channel, Classic FM, and sponsored by Sky TV, 150 prizewinners were treated to a free concert in Penzance, last week.

Trumpeter Alison Balsom has become the first British woman to win best female at the Classical Brit awards.

Award-winning British tenor Alfie Boe will be performing with the Ulster Orchestra at the Waterfront Hall on May 15th.

BBC Radio 3 was named Station of the Year for the first time in its 42-year history last night at the industry's answer to the Oscars.

In a poll taken by Classic FM and Radio Times last year, Jose Carreras came a surprising eighth in the search to find the Nation's Favourite Male Singer of all time.

ALMOST two-thirds of British children cannot name a traditional composer, with many citing Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, or even Shakespeare, as examples of classical musicians, according to a new survey.