#ClassicFM have 1 cd - "Now that's what I call Classical Music Vol 1".
ClassicFM Calm play slow weedy piano pop songs which are very annoying and irritating. Not calming.
BBC Radio 3 Unwind sound like children were given a piano to play with! Plink Plonk and ghastly Mindful interludes.
Moved to R3.

#RichardArmitage will be back on #ClassicFM Radio to celebrate #BoxingDay Friday, Dec 26 and Saturday, Dec 27, 7-9 PM. Another not-to-be-missed appearance! 🎙️🎧 🎶

🎉 Huge congrats to the winners of the Classic FM Music Teacher of the Year Awards! Each received a share of £20k to spend with Normans Musical Instruments. 🎶 Your work is shaping music education across the UK! 🙌 #MusicTeacher #ClassicFM #MusicEducation #MusicalInstruments

It still baffles me that Vaughan Williams could compose something as sublime as the Tallis Fantasia, but also come up with a piece as awful as Lark Ascending, 15 minutes of ear-destroying, screeching violins and no discernable melody. Bizarre.

#ClassicFM #classicalmusic

Do Quarto do Hospital, Nuno Markl Revela Ritual Noturno com Classic FM para "Ter Paz na Mente e no Corpo" Após AVC Apesar de ter vivido um verdadeiro susto de saúde na passada semana na sequência de um Acidente Vascular Cerebral (AVC), Nuno Markl parece e...

Do hospital, Nuno Markl partilha o 'ritual' secreto: ouvir Classic FM à noite para paz total na mente e corpo! "Parte da minha felicidade" ❤️🎼

#NunoMarkl #RitualPaz #ClassicFM #AVCRecuperação #HumorPortugues #HospitalMarkl #Taskmaster #RadioComercial

www.memeiros.com/2025/11/do-q...

Turning off #ClassicFM every time they play Christmas carols because IT IS NOT CHRISTMAS!!!!!!! 🤬

Jingle Bells and Bleak Midwinter on the 27th November is ridiculous.

#stillNovemberfolks

There is no escape, #ClassicFM has started its Christmas season.
Don't get me wrong, I like the channel, but its play list is, limited at the best of time and at Christmas it is very limited!
I need to find a new background radio channel till Jan 1st, any suggestions?

@classicfm.com sets my clock for Christmas. I do not ever debate when to go all out, until they announce their Christmas music. Every year. No regrets. #tooearly #classicFM

1 cat sits in the window, watching, her sister hides , stressful time. But thank god for #classicfm pet classics #Nov5th .. do wish fireworks were silent though.

If your pet is like Moose and frightened by the fireworks – try some calming classical music to bring them peace 😊

🎶🐾🐶🐱🐇🐹🐴🐾💥

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#BonfireNight
#ClassicFM
#PetClassics
#Birmingham
#BirminghamUK
#Bromsgrove
#WestMidlands
#B31Voices #BVoices

Bonfire Night can be a scary time for pets, so once again #ClassicFM is teaming up with the #RSPCA to create two Pet Classics programmes to help calm and settle any anxious pets.

Tomorrow (Wednesday 5th November) and on Saturday 8th November
www.classicfm.com/music-news/p...

I was prepared to give it a go but the *iconic*, *late-great*, *maestro*, *all-in-this-together* clichés & sheer lack of theme that filled the first five minutes of Edith Bowman's trite #SoundOfCinema do not bode well. #BBCRadio3 goes full #ClassicFM. It's not about anything!

#YumekaNakagawa #pianist moved to #tears while #playing #Chopin
Shared by #ClassicFM

To be honest I was struck by how very little knowledge or passion Starmer was able to summon. His choices (& facile commentary) showed him to be a very #ClassicFM sort of chap. At a key moment, his apparent ignorance of the difference between “simply” and “simplistically” seemed horribly telling.

Looking at data and listening to #ClassicFM and can safely say that the William Tell Overture is not good background music for this.

This weekend, #RichardArmitage presents #ClassicFM at the Movies, 7-9 pm, Friday and Saturday. Discover some of his favorite soundtracks from the big and small screens, plus how he ended up sleeping in Bilbo Baggins’ actual bed...
Download Global Player to listen www.classicfm.com/radio/schedu...

🎶 Congrats to MusicShare — winner of the Classic FM Music Teacher of the Year Award for Best Music Learning Initiative! 👏

Led by Cathy Lamb, the programme inspires young voices across Staffordshire. 🌟

🔗 Read more:
www.musiceducation.global/c/schools/mu...

#MusicEducation #ClassicFM #MusicShare

A pianist was thrust onstage to perform a song she hadn't practiced. Somehow, she pulled this off. We've all experienced this, even as adults: You know that nightmare where you show up to the final day of class and there's a huge test and you panic as you realize you've missed the whole semester and haven't studied at all? Or how about the one where you have to give a big presentation at work and you show up totally unprepared—no notes, no visuals, no speech—and you have to wing it? For musicians, the equivalent is showing up on stage to perform without preparation or rehearsal, which is exactly what happened to Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires when she was on stage in front of an audience of 2,000 people in Amsterdam in 1999. As the orchestra started to play, she quickly realized she was in trouble—she had prepared the wrong concerto. As the musicians played the two-and-a-half-minute intro to Mozart's Piano Concerto No.20, Pires sat at the piano in terror. She had not practiced that piece and she didn't even have the sheet music for it. Kenan Thompson Nightmare GIF by NBC Giphy She had, however, played that concerto before, and in an inspiring feat of musicality, muscle memory, and sheer human will—along with some encouraging words from conductor Riccardo Chailly—Pires got herself centered and locked in, playing the correct concerto in its entirety, miraculously without missing a note. > — (@) The full story actually feels even more daunting for those of us who can't sit down and pound out a piano concerto at will. It turned out that Pires wasn't even the original pianist who was slated to play at this concert. She was asked _the day before_ to be a replacement for the pianist who couldn't perform, so she didn't have a lot of time to prepare anyway. However, she'd misheard the number of the Mozart piece over the phone and thought it was a piece she had played only a couple of weeks before. If that had been the case, she would have been fine, even with the short notice. But having the wrong concerto in mind and then not even having the sheet music for the correct one was an extra pile-on from an already high-pressure situation. The fact that it was a general rehearsal and not the official performance wasn't much consolation, since it was an open rehearsal with a full audience. A rehearsal audience is likely more forgiving than an audience that paid top dollar for a concert, but it's still mortifying to have thousands of people expecting you to perform something you have not prepared for. Thankfully, Pires had performed the concerto multiple times, most recently about 10 or 11 months prior, so she wasn't clueless. But perfectly recalling something you did nearly a year ago at that level and under that amount of pressure is absolutely incredible. The conductor who encouraged her later talked about how impressive it was. "The miracle is that she has such a memory that she could, within a minute, switch to a new concerto without making one mistake," said Chailly. However, Pires insists that her memory is not exceptional at all and that she is "very, very average" among musicians. - YouTube youtu.be But it wasn't the only time this happened to Pires. "I must say, this happened to me another two times in my life. In total, three times," she told _ClassicFM_ 's Joanna Gosling. "I hope it never happens again." Pires already gets nervous about performing, despite being a world famous concert pianist. "I normally feel very stressed on stage," Pires said. "It's not the stage, it's not the public, it's the responsibility. I feel insecure. And that's why I'm not a stage person somehow. There is one side of me that feels okay—I feel okay with the people. But being on stage and being responsible for something can give me some panic." As Gosling points out, if you were just listening to the performance, you'd never know there'd been an issue. But the camera on her face tells an entire story during the orchestral opening as we see her grappling with the crisis she'd found herself in. Watching the moment she decided she had no choice but to just go for it, whatever happened, is remarkable. A true testament to the power of repetition and the resilience of the human spirit, and a reminder that musicians truly are magicians in so many ways. _This article originally appeared in March. It has been updated._

A pianist was thrust onstage to perform a song she hadn't practiced. Somehow, she pulled this off. We've all experienced this, even as adults: You know that nightmare where you show up to the final day of class and there's a huge test and you panic as you realize you've missed the whole semester and haven't studied at all? Or how about the one where you have to give a big presentation at work and you show up totally unprepared—no notes, no visuals, no speech—and you have to wing it? For musicians, the equivalent is showing up on stage to perform without preparation or rehearsal, which is exactly what happened to Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires when she was on stage in front of an audience of 2,000 people in Amsterdam in 1999. As the orchestra started to play, she quickly realized she was in trouble—she had prepared the wrong concerto. As the musicians played the two-and-a-half-minute intro to Mozart's Piano Concerto No.20, Pires sat at the piano in terror. She had not practiced that piece and she didn't even have the sheet music for it. Kenan Thompson Nightmare GIF by NBC Giphy She had, however, played that concerto before, and in an inspiring feat of musicality, muscle memory, and sheer human will—along with some encouraging words from conductor Riccardo Chailly—Pires got herself centered and locked in, playing the correct concerto in its entirety, miraculously without missing a note. > — (@) The full story actually feels even more daunting for those of us who can't sit down and pound out a piano concerto at will. It turned out that Pires wasn't even the original pianist who was slated to play at this concert. She was asked _the day before_ to be a replacement for the pianist who couldn't perform, so she didn't have a lot of time to prepare anyway. However, she'd misheard the number of the Mozart piece over the phone and thought it was a piece she had played only a couple of weeks before. If that had been the case, she would have been fine, even with the short notice. But having the wrong concerto in mind and then not even having the sheet music for the correct one was an extra pile-on from an already high-pressure situation. The fact that it was a general rehearsal and not the official performance wasn't much consolation, since it was an open rehearsal with a full audience. A rehearsal audience is likely more forgiving than an audience that paid top dollar for a concert, but it's still mortifying to have thousands of people expecting you to perform something you have not prepared for. Thankfully, Pires had performed the concerto multiple times, most recently about 10 or 11 months prior, so she wasn't clueless. But perfectly recalling something you did nearly a year ago at that level and under that amount of pressure is absolutely incredible. The conductor who encouraged her later talked about how impressive it was. "The miracle is that she has such a memory that she could, within a minute, switch to a new concerto without making one mistake," said Chailly. However, Pires insists that her memory is not exceptional at all and that she is "very, very average" among musicians. - YouTube youtu.be But it wasn't the only time this happened to Pires. "I must say, this happened to me another two times in my life. In total, three times," she told _ClassicFM_ 's Joanna Gosling. "I hope it never happens again." Pires already gets nervous about performing, despite being a world famous concert pianist. "I normally feel very stressed on stage," Pires said. "It's not the stage, it's not the public, it's the responsibility. I feel insecure. And that's why I'm not a stage person somehow. There is one side of me that feels okay—I feel okay with the people. But being on stage and being responsible for something can give me some panic." As Gosling points out, if you were just listening to the performance, you'd never know there'd been an issue. But the camera on her face tells an entire story during the orchestral opening as we see her grappling with the crisis she'd found herself in. Watching the moment she decided she had no choice but to just go for it, whatever happened, is remarkable. A true testament to the power of repetition and the resilience of the human spirit, and a reminder that musicians truly are magicians in so many ways. _This article originally appeared in March. It has been updated._

Take a peek inside Mozart’s actual (£8 million) London townhouse The house where Mozart composed his first symphony in 1764 boasts five bedrooms, an enormous garden and a big classical history.

Mozart’s townhouse in Belgravia, London. www.classicfm.com/composers/mo... #Belgravia #Eburystreet #Westminster #Mozart #ClassicFM

#ClassicalMusic Classic FM shows a playful side with a DSCH/Harry Potter gag—proof they can do humour, not just “relaxing” vibes. Seen it? Share your favourite cheeky classical moments. #ClassicFM #Shostakovich

✨Last week we had the opportunity to speak with Classic FM's 'Composer-in-Residence', Debbie Wiseman, on scoring to picture and the magic of hearing her music in St Asaph Cathedral. Don’t miss Zeb Soanes presenting her iconic works with NEW Sinfonia! Tomorrow: Sunday 9pm📻 #DebbieWiseman #ClassicFM

My doctors dumped that type of system. Everybody is so much less stressed and some of those waiting chat about "things" as gentle #ClassicFM style sounds waft around. They have even, at long last put up a clear poster for LGBT Healthy Initiative. All fair.

No disrespect to the late-night female presenters on Classic FM, but, whilst the choice of music is enjoyable, I can’t understand a word they’re saying!
#classicfm

Tonight we are listening to Classic FM - love all music, but this evening is rest time.
Goodnight

#classicfm #movienight #fridaynight #goodnight

On National Radio Day, I'd be remiss not to mention #RichardArmitage and his newest "side" career as a radio presenter, which began in earnest last May for #ClassicFM. He reprised his role in January and was asked back this May for Classic FM at the Movies to chat about his favorite film scores. 🎬🎶

Barry's Tea | Irish Tea

I heard some nonsense on #ClassicFM a few minutes ago about microwaving tea. 😭

Not something I'd suggest but if you want a decent drink try Barry's #Irish tea.

Gorgeous!

www.barrystea.ie

#ClassicFM it is then….

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Join WCNY Radio as we close out Pride Month with the special program "Looking Forward with Pride." Join host.... celebrating the stories and achievements of the LGBTQ+ arts community.
Tune in on Monday, June 30 at 11 a.m. & 6 p.m. on Classic FM.
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BBC Radio 3
@bbcradio3bot.bsky.social - the breakfast programme is so much better than #ClassicFM
None of those awful adverts and a much much greater variety of music.
Also you don't have to listen to Mozart's violin concerto all the bloody time.