#classic fm

[ghibli-collector]

Joe Hisaishi makes the classic fm hall of fame top 300 for the first time ever! 🥳🍾🎊 if you don’t know the hall of fame for classic fm is voted for by the public and is announced once a year, and for the first time he’s made it!! At 220 🔥 i voted and hope next year you can all vote too and we will get Hisaishi even higher ❤️

[richardarmitagefanpage]

My screenshots of Richard on Classic FM.

[thethirdromana]

Something I'm really enjoying this weekend is the Classic FM Hall of Fame countdown.

The way it works is this: Classic FM, the radio station for people who quite like classical music but don't want to listen to anything too weird or challenging (i.e. me) does a massive survey of its listeners every year to find their favourite pieces of music.

Then over four days, they count down all the way from number 300 to number 1, which will almost certainly be Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto number 2 or Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending (though I personally am holding out a small hope for Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, which was number 3 last year).

It's both fun (four days of reliably good classical music) and kind of fascinating to me as an insight into what a particular slice of classical music listeners - mostly British people aged 50+ with solidly popular/middlebrow tastes - are currently into. It changes very little year-on-year, which lots of people hate about it, but which in my view makes the small changes even more fascinating - like in 2023 when barely anyone voted for Wagner. There's gradually more film music and more diverse composers every year. In 2013, there was a big campaign that saw the Final Fantasy soundtrack make it to number 3.

The countdown process also means there's some extreme tonal whiplash; just now we went from the Ride of the Valkyries to Suite from the Victorian Kitchen Garden, two pieces of music which really do not fit naturally together. And my favourite thing is how audibly thrilled the presenters get when they reach one of the pieces that they voted for.

[riepu10]

classicfm Richard Armitage – aka Thorin Oakenshield – looks back on music from The Hobbit...

10 years since the final Hobbit film hit cinemas, Richard Armitage makes his radio presenting debut on Classic FM, sharing music from the trilogy alongside his personal soundtrack favourites. 🎬 (x)

[paulsbettanys]

classicfm: Is a career change on the cards for Paul Bettany? 👀

The actor, who plays Antonio Salieri in the new ‘Amadeus’ series, shared how he felt when he realised he was conducting the ‘Lacrimosa’ from Mozart’s Requiem for the first time.

classicfm: How does a conductor know what to conduct? 🤔 Gabrielle Creevy, who plays Constanze Mozart, quizzes Amadeus co-stars Paul Bettany and Will Sharpe on learning to conduct for the new TV series.  

watch in full here

[bttrflyblu]

Czardas LIVE - Nemanja Radulović | Classic FM

[erathene]

Saw this on Facebook and thought it was worth sharing 🙂

[shame-in-you]

Classic fm is on and I thought I just heard the presenter say “he was fucking the organ”