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Why haven't DVDs made my baby a genius?

28.10.09
If, like me, you belong to the demographic unfairly called "pushy parents", this has not been a good week... more

Philarmonia closes Southbank season

01.07.09
A performance by the Philharmonia Orchestra brought its South Bank season to a close but there was no sense of end-of-term laxness. ... more

The baby bump iPod

17.04.09
It could soon be the must-have fashion accessory for every mother-to-be - the MP3 player that plays music for your unborn child ... more

Thanks to BBC2, I’ve caught negorrhea

05.03.09
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Bavarian Radio Orchestra given sturdy narrative

01.12.08
The Bavarian Radio Orchestra established its Bruckner credentials under its founder, Eugen Jochum, and performs his music with grace born of muscular power.... more

Prodigy storms the Proms

01.09.08
He is barely tall enough for his feet to reach the pedals of his piano, but nine-year-old Marc Yu earned a rapturous reception with a storming performance at the Proms... more

Motown touch for Mozart

14.02.08
Mark Dornford-May's take on The Magic Flute becomes a kind of multi-lingual South African township pantomime.... more

Magic Flute is a mixed bag

12.02.08
This revival of David McVicar's handsome production of Mozart's Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) is a mixed bag.... more

Mehler shows more rhythm

15.01.08
Young New Yorker Elan Mehler plays jazz as Debussy, Ravel or Chopin might have done if teleported into a Manhattan basement jam session.... more

Big band dramatics from Barker

04.12.07
A talented arranger and trumpeter, Guy Barker's Amadeus Project served up a feast of film-noir big-band dramatics.... more

Mozart and mischief

27.09.07
Mozart's The First Commandment, started when he was just 11, is no masterpiece. But the Classical Opera Company's performance shows it is more than juvenilia.... more

Exquisite singing and brutal physicality

09.08.07
It's not always clear what's going on in Lacrimosa but the ritual and rhythm, and aural and visual beauty, attacks the senses with the might of a force ten gale.... more

Traore is extraordinary

01.08.07
Epic in vision, imaginative in scope and brilliantly and peerlessly executed, Rokia Traore's Wati was an extraordinary show.... more

Mad for Amadeus

13.07.07
Violinist Maxim Rysanov will perform in the Mostly Mozart festival as one of the group of soloists in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.6.... more

Glorying in Mozart

05.07.07
If you overlook the interrogation-grade lighting, the cramped stage, and Howard Hodgkin's lazy designs, Mozart Dances is a glorious thing, says Sarah Frater.... more

Season of Mozart at Barbican

03.07.07
The sixth annual running of the Mostly Mozart Season gets underway on 13 July at the Barbican Theatre... more

'New' hall a boon to Mozart

14.06.07
The Royal Festival Hall returned after a two-year closure to host Mozart's Piano Concerto No20, headed by Vladimir Jurowski... more

ENO is back with La Clemenza di Tito

11.06.07
ENO's 2005 production of Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito is back for the first time but without the same tight focus. ... more

Nothing sheepish about this serenata

11.06.07
Mozart's Il Re Pastore launched Garsington's new season on Saturday. ... more

Fine start to birthday celebrations

22.02.07
With breathtaking timing and delicacy, there were moments in Mitsuko Uchida's solo passages where impish freedom threatened to become wilfulness.... more

Bright light in the night

10.01.07
The Razumovsky Ensemble's carefully-gauged Schoenberg was a pleasure, but smooth playing sold its Mozart string quintet a little short, says Nick Kimberley.... more

Rare outing for bright and breezy Mozart

12.12.06
Despite the Mozart overload, there are works that still qualify as rarities, none more so than the Symphony in F which was given an outing with the Academy of Ancient Music.... more

With a little help from his friends

12.10.06
Michael Collins kicked off his "and Friends" season at Wigmore Hall with Mozart, helped greatly by the fact that all his friends are virtuosos.... more

The seeds of future bounty

22.09.06
Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera is best regarded as a work of prophecy. Yet it fails to spring to complete dramatic life, despite the many real pleasures on the way.... more

Never mind the B**bican

19.09.06
Punk rock, the raucous voice of rebellion in the Seventies, is to be celebrated with an exhibition at one of Britain's most august arts institutions.... more

Horrifying portrait of divine genius

19.09.06
Twenty-seven years ago London went wild about Amadeus, a musico-dramatic fantasy about Mozart. John Doyle's haunting, imaginatively conceived production improves upon that sumptuous staging.... more

Soviet suffering, intensely realised

14.09.06
Valery Gergiev and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra started slowly with Mozart but built up to something spectacular with an intensely realised performance of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony.... more

In search of Mozart's inner peace

29.08.06
Phillippe Herreweghe steered the Orchestre des Champs Elysées down an alternative path at its Proms performance of Mozart's Requiem, and the less intense approach proved successful.... more

Three of a kind

17.08.06
Barry Millington picks out three must see classical performances to go and see in London.... more

Youth redeems itself

14.08.06
Shostakovich's gargantuan Fourth Symphony was the showpiece finale of Saturday's Prom by the European Union Youth Orchestra and was played with bravura and electrifying virtuosity... more

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