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Proms 2009: It was a balmy night in Athens

10.09.09
On Tuesday night the chill winds of the Hebrides blew through Peter Maxwell Davies’s account of Mendelssohn’s Fingal’s Cave Overture... more

Welcome back Tristan und Isolde

10.08.09
Tristan und Isolde returns to the Glyndebourne as strongly cast as ever and in one respect improved yet further.... more

Stravinsky season is kept in Czech

28.07.09
The prom by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jiri Belohlavek began the sequence of Stravinsky ballets.... more

Glorious opening for Proms with Belohlavek

20.07.09
The opening night of the Proms 2009 was a fair token of a season that will include Goldie, Jonny Greenwood and and an Indian Voices Day.... more

Rusalka is deeply, deeply moving

06.07.09
Storywise Dvorak’s rather wonderful Rusalka is essentially the Little Mermaid with a Slavic twist.... more

Pick of the Proms - from Bollywood to Barenboim

26.05.09
No other festival offers so much for so little money. Here is a round-up of the concerts not to be missed as part of this year's Proms festival.... more

Julietta brought alive by staging

30.03.09
Belohlávek kept things moving, making smooth transitions between speech and song, and reaching a powerful conclusion in Julietta.... more

Martinu and me

18.03.09
Our writer reveals his passion for a great, unsung Czech composer whose finest opera has a rare performance in London next week...... more

Fifth Symphony is stirring but aloof

13.11.08
The BBC players delivered the goods but little more, and there were moments of sour tuning and less than razor-sharp ensemble at their Barbican concert.... more

Prom fails to spark

22.08.08
Problems with casting, balance and audibility, meant this Prom performance misfired on several counts, says Barry Millington ... more

Shaman's words soar in musical Mirage

20.03.08
The hallucinatory aspect of Kaija Saariaho's new piece is captured well by Karita Mattila's performance; making this production a triumph.... more

A flirtatious finale

10.09.07
Russian diva Anna Netrebko brought sex to the Last Night of the Proms, usually an erogenous free zone.... more

Wonderful Wagner

02.08.07
Thunderous applause and footstamping greeted the end of Tristan und Isolde, in the keenly awaited revival of Nikolaus Lehnhoff 's 2003 production.... more

Below-par symphony on a disappointing night

18.07.07
Some difficult scores proved too great a challenge for the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the guidance of guest conductor David Robertson... more

Choral sympathy for Beethoven

16.07.07
After last year's cancellation of Beethoven, Proms traditionalists would have been gratified by its inclusion twice this year.... more

Proms takes inspiration from Hurricane Katrina

26.04.07
The BBC Proms will tackle the subject of global warming with a musical drama inspired by the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina.... more

Belohlavek is making a difference

05.04.07
Jiri Belohlavek, a calm, authoritative presence, elicited well-blended ensemble playing as well as some outstanding solos from the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall.... more

Bruckner rises above the ordinary

01.09.06
After getting off to a bit of a rocky start, conductor Jiri Belohlavek made amends with an authoritative interpretation of Bruckner's Ninth at the Proms last night.... more

Critic's Choice: Classical

31.08.06
A magnificent weekend of music beckons at the Albert Hall, with Sir Simon Rattle and his Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra the potential highlight.... more

Uncommonly satisfying

16.08.06
Orchestras are famously difficult to please - and the BBC Symphony is no exception. But as last night's prom showed, their new Chief Conductor, Jiri Belohlavek, is scoring high in the approval ratings.... more

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