The news that Roberto Alagna and Aleksandra Kurzak have had a little tenorino--and congrats to them--prompts us to look at a few other musical family ties.

Presenting, then, Classicalite's Five Best...Classical Music Families.

Sir Simon Rattle and Magdalena Kozena, the conductor and the mezzo, also expecting another child, and incidentally there have been some pretty thrilling musical collaborations along the way.

The Wallfisch clan, and there are none more talented, are music through and through. Probably the best known, as yet, is the cellist Raphael Wallfisch, son of the cellist and Holocaust survivor Anota, and his pianist father Peter. He is married to the violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch and their son is the conductor and composer Benjamin Wallfisch.

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