{"id":519080,"date":"2026-04-08T07:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519080\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:12:11","slug":"classic-fm-has-a-new-hall-of-fame-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519080\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic FM has a new Hall of Fame hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>norman lebrecht<\/p>\n<p>April 07, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Top slot in the station\u2019s Hall of Fame has alternated for years between Rachmaninov\u2019s 2nd piano concerto and Vaughan Williams\u2019 The Lark Ascending. Together, they have come top in 23 out of the past 31 years.<\/p>\n<p>That duopoly was broken last night when a work by Sir Karl Jenkins, The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, was voted by listeners as their favourite piece of \u2018classical\u2019 music.<br \/>The Armed Man was premiered in April 2000 by the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain at the Royal Albert Hall and promoted incessantly by Classic FM.<\/p>\n<p>Roll over, Ralphie VW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"norman lebrecht April 07, 2026 Top slot in the station\u2019s Hall of Fame has alternated for years between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-519080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}