Tchaikovsky may have loathed it, but his 1812 Overture has just been voted the UK's most popular piece of classical music ... Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 remained in second place.
It was covered many more times, most famously ... of Barber’s famous 1936 piece has created euphoria across dancefloors worldwide. Orbit released two albums of classical covers – Pieces ...
This quiet midsummer’s evening saw the first performance of a work that would become one of the most consistently popular pieces of classical ... performed the piano part himself in the ballroom ...