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Harrison Birtwistle's brilliance is unmasked at Proms

18.08.09
Placing Harrison Birtwistle alongside Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood is eccentric, even perverse programming but that’s what the Proms are for... more

Self-portrait of a composer in Proms

27.07.09
Fast-moving passages left the BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC National Chorus of Wales, superbly drilled and finely tuned.... more

Semper Dowland and The Corridor open Aldeburgh

15.06.09
The 62nd Aldeburgh Festival inhabits familiar territory with The Corridor.... more

The Brudenell is a classical, coastal delight

11.06.09
From the home of the Aldeburgh Festival comes a mix of Enid Blyton-era seaside holidays and chattering-class comfort... 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

Making a song and dance of Mussorgsky

29.04.09
A gaunt young actor is staggering about the chalked-up floor of a rehearsal room, a vodka bottle to his lips... more

Welcome to the Slumdog Proms

08.04.09
The Proms are going to Bollywood with a day dedicated entirely to Indian music culminating in a Bollywood song and dance extravaganza... more

The best of the best

30.12.08
Who do the experts consider to be the actor, dancer, playwright or conductor at the very top of their game? We asked our critics to give their highly subjective views.... more

Mark Pamore and Britten Sinfonia provide brilliance

28.10.08
The evening was devised by tenor Mark Padmore who is gaining a parallel reputation as a programme maker of imagination and perception. ... more

Eötvös is the modern music man

30.07.08
After a space shuttle concerto and a psalm about Frank Zappa, next month Peter Eötvös will unveil his new Márquez opera at Glyndebourne. ... more

Musical adventure at Aldeburgh Festival

24.06.08
The audienceat the Aldeburgh Festival sat enthralled, as if collectively stunned by a most Gallic coup de foudre.... more

There will be blood

28.04.08
The Minotaur is the operatic equivalent of Joy Division or Scott Walker at their bleakest, says Richard Godwin.... more

The knockout Punch

21.04.08
With an impeccable cast and bold staging, Harrison Birtwistle's Punch and Judy has been restored with pugnacious vitality at the Young Vic.... more

The magical madness of my boyhood hero Waugh

18.04.08
There have been plenty of arts events this week, as every week. The Orange Prize for Women's Fiction unleashed its shortlist. Harrison Birtwistle's opera about the poor old Minotaur was premiered. A bit of an exhibition about James Bond opened. The RSC put on the History Plays at the Roundhouse... more

The Minotaur's monster performance

16.04.08
Set to a powerful text by poet David Harsent, Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s brilliant new Minotaur storms into life for its world premiere at the Royal Opera House.... more

No bull, the Covent Garden monster

08.04.08
Standing more than 11ft tall, from today he will dominate the entrance to the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden... more

Punch and Judy for adults

18.03.08
The Royal Opera House's revived production of Harrison Birtwistle's Punch and Judy is a triumph, says Barry Millington.... more

Modern masters show their style

13.03.08
Any doubts that contemporary British music is alive and well would have been reassured by the indispensable Nash Ensemble.... more

It's an opera mash-up

12.03.08
English National Opera is joining forces with the Young Vic to create a new kind of opera out of a film by David Lynch. Something as bold as this could work only in London, says its director Diane Paulus.... more

The hottest tickets for the year ahead

04.01.08
From Kylie Minogue and masterpieces of Impressionism to an invasion of Chinese dance companies, the next 12 months will be a treat for London's arts lovers.... more

Composers don disguises

11.12.07
The Britten Sinfonia's performance was precise and danceable, where shared pleasure in music-making was worth more than merely superficial gloss.... more

A jittery and fast late-night Prom

01.08.07
Ivan Volkov enjoyed an enterprising programme with the BBC Singers, while the late night Prom from London Sinfonietta was a dazzling affair.... more

Hytner's back in an epic season at Covent Garden

04.04.07
Nicholas Hytner is to return to the Royal Opera House after a 20 year absence, as the Royal Opera House annouces an epic 2007/08 season.... more

Rattle traces some great inspiration

08.03.07
With two giants of British music-making coming together, it is little surprise the Barbican Hall audience was treated to a glorious concert.... more

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