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3 October 2024, 23:04 | Updated: 3 October 2024, 23:08 Band in Leipzig perform Mozart piece By Kyle Macdonald Long lines of music lovers formed to hear a piece of history, as a previously unknown Mozart trio received its first public performance.  It‘s not often that you can hear new music from  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . But that’s just what modern audiences enjoyed last weekend, with performances of a newly discovered string trio. Last Thursday, Leipzig municipal libraries revealed their discovery of a previously unknown work by the great Austrian composer. The music was found in the collection of the Leipzig Municipal Library while researchers were completing a new edition of the Köchel catalogue of Mozart’s works.  Korina Kilian from the Leipzig Municipal Libraries, holds a music newly discovered manuscript.  Picture:  Alamy Composed for string trio, the seven-movement piece is believed to have been written in the mid to late 1760s, when Mozart was a teenager...

Blind pianist Lucy stuns Royal Albert Hall with breathtaking Debussy debut | Classic FM Live By Kyle Macdonald   Watch a very special performance, as the exceptional pianist who won Channel 4’s ‘The Piano’ plays deeply emotional Debussy to an audience of 6,000 in London’s iconic theatre.  Monday night saw an incredible piano debut on one of the world’s biggest and most iconic stages. Playing at Classic FM Live with Viking was a musician whose talent and deep relationship with music has stunned the classical world. Teenage pianist Lucy played Claude Debussy’s Arabesque No. 1 to the packed hall. The remarkable young pianist  won the Channel 4 series  The Piano  earlier this year, aged just 13. Her opening performance of a  Chopin  nocturne on a train station piano left judge Lang Lang stunned and  lost for words . From that moment, a new piano star was born. Lucy played in May’s Coronation Concert for King Charles at Windsor...

By Kyle Macdonald   One of the great singers of our time, brings Puccini’s timeless opera masterpiece to an iconic concert hall. It’s a performance not many will ever forget. “Vincerò!” or “I will win!” – it’s the famous and always moving climax to the aria from Puccini’s opera  Turandot . The aria is one of those very special moments of music that has gripped and enchanted millions over the years. It found truly global fame in the 1990s thanks to  Luciano Pavarotti , Italia 90, and Three Tenors CDs that were on virtually everyone’s shelf. Its drama and power, combined with that enduring public appeal makes it a natural show-stopper in live performances. And so it was on this night, before 5,000 people at London’s Royal Albert Hall, during an opera-themed Classic FM Live with Viking. But there’s always more than just those high notes at the very end of the aria. And on that night, there was a singer perfectly matched to reveal every glorious, moving moment ...

  Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber to write new work for King Charles III, as coronation music announced 18 February 2023, 22:30 | Updated: 20 February 2023, 12:03 Music at His Majesty the King’s coronation at Westminster Abbey.  Picture: Getty By Kyle Macdonald   Twelve new works will form the musical centrepiece of King Charles III’s coronation at Westminster Abbey, casting a spotlight on leading British composers and performers. Buckingham Palace has revealed the music at His Majesty the King’s coronation will include a new Coronation Anthem by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and eleven other pieces personally commissioned by King Charles. Lloyd Webber said he hopes his new anthem, which is scored for the Westminster Abbey choir and organ, and the ceremonial brass and orchestra, “reflects this joyful occasion”. The new works for the service at London’s Westminster Abbey on Saturday 6 May 2022 are each by world-renowned British composers. They will be performed by leading cl...

Updated: 3 January 2023, 19:55 Luciano and Fernando Pavarotti.  Picture: Facebook / The Tenor / Rai Uno By Kyle Macdonald, ClassicFM London   The touching moment when a father joined his son for a very special performance of a beloved sacred song.  When a former baker took to the stage with opera’s biggest star, it was a story about music spanning the generations. Legendary tenor Luciano Pavarotti was born in 1935 in Modena, Northern Italy. His father, Fernando Pavarotti, was a baker, and his mother, Adele Venturi, a cigar factory worker. Fernando Pavarotti was an amateur singer with a fine tenor voice. Years later, his son said Fernando had turned down the possibility of a singing career because of stage fright and nerves. The family was poor in those early days, but his father’s passion for music opened a new world for his son. Luciano’s first encounters with singing and opera came through both his singing and listening to his father’s collection of album...