Classical

Hervé Niquet conducted his five choirs, forty voices in all, accompanied by cornett, dulcians, sackbutts,…
After the fun of the night before when the lit-up and musical Usher Hall was the focal point of the…
CONSTANT LAMBERT: The Rio Grande NEY ROSAURO: Marimba Concerto RODRIGO: Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios HAYDN…
I've been a regular at the end-of-festival Fireworks for some years and this year's was the best yet.
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra waited until the last minute before all the players came on to the stage.
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra gave a capacity Festival audience an evening to remember with a programme…
The ensemble this morning consisted of the Swedish mezzo soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, the violinist Daniel…
Vadim Gluzman was the violin soloist in Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto composed in 1942 when Barber was with…
With the double basses raised and along the back of the orchestra, and with twelve violas at the front to the…
Haydn's Nelson Mass is full of surprises not least in its flamboyant soprano opening. Are we really listening…
A full-strength LPO, crammed onto the Usher Hall stage, did full justice to its opening piece by resident…
In a programme of Chopin's piano music Wasa Hasegawa gave us two nocturnes, four Mazurkas, a Scherzo and a…