Even today, when music transcends national borders more than ever, English composers rely on champions. Foreign conductors ...

Tchaikovsky and Vaughan Williams make rare bedfellows, but Pappano's grip on these disparate scores impresses, with the ...

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It seldom happens that you long to hear choral music not in a modern auditorium but some chilly, echoing cavern of a great ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Last Night of the Proms marks an annual turning point, the end of the summer festivals, the start of the ...

Familiar to us in the UK mostly as an opera conductor, firm and clear-headed in the three vivid narratives of the evening, he provided the ideal security for orchestral playing and stunning singing to ...

Gianandrea Noseda, the dynamic Italian conductor, opens Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series by leading two concerts with the king of London orchestras. The first, featuring the electrifying ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Colin Davis, the long-serving principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra renowned for his interpretations of Mozart, Sibelius and Berlioz, has died aged 85. LONDON ...