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Cambridge University diversity in Proms show

23.07.09

Forget centenaries, bicentenaries, tercentenaries. Let's celebrate Cambridge University's founding 800 years ago. ... more

Herbie Hancock to the rescue

13.07.09

Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang's strange concert, a thing of fits and starts, took the form of a mystery tour.... more

Macbeth, Oliver! and now Puccini... theatre director Goold signs up to ENO

02.04.09

Award-winning director Rupert Goold, 36, is to direct Turandot in the English National Opera's next season ... more

A brutalism borne in the Resistance

09.03.09

For many years the BBC mounted an annual celebration of a contemporary composer that left few stones unturned. One emerged from those weekends battered, exhilarated and infinitely better informed... more

Wave of emotion in Riders to the Sea

28.11.08

Death permeates Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Riders to the Sea, and it hovers tragically over English National Opera’s production.... more

Conductor Richard Hickox dies at 60

24.11.08

Richard Hickox has died of a suspected heart attack at the age of 60, four days before he was due to conduct a new production at English National Opera... more

Proms brought to close with flair

15.09.08

Kitted out in Welsh red dragon coat trimmed with saltire and cross of St George, Bryn Terfel led the lusty crowd in Rule, Britannia! at the Last Night of the Proms.... more

Mysterious journey in Brabbins' prom

11.09.08

With the beginning and possible ending of the world in the news Brabbins' Prom was the ideal opportunity for a journey into the unknown.... more

Violins thrill at Eötvös premiere

28.08.08

Eötvös's two-movement elegy launches straight in on high, with stratospheric violin textures offset by ensemble sounds.... more

Pastoral passion for Andrew Davis

27.08.08

Andrew Davis conducted the BBCSO in a programme that offered the original masque Job and enigmatic Ninth Symphony.... more

Rare delight from Sinaisky

13.08.08

The juxtaposition of the familiar and the unfamiliar is a hallmark of the Proms as Sinaisky's concert demonstrated.... more

Hallé Orchestra is reborn

30.07.08

Under Mark Elder the Hallé is once again playing with security of technique and a radiance of tone reminiscent of Barbirolli's period.... more

Sudbin is in an altared state

25.07.08

If the Russian pianist Yevgeny Sudbin was suffering pre-nup nerves, he kept them well hidden at the Proms.... more

The 25 must-see Proms

16.07.08

The 2008 Proms caters for all tastes, prejudices and proclivities as never before. Here are the moments you can't miss.... more

Pilgrim's Progress brought to life

23.06.08

The Pilgrim's Progress marked the 50th anniversary of the composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams's death, and it pulled out all the stops.... more

Big-Hearted Bryn's sensitivity and showmanship

20.06.08

A big man with a huge voice, Bryn Terfel represented value for money, according to Nick Kimberly, even with tickets to last night's benefit show costing Ł250 apiece. ... more

A poignant tribute

02.06.08

The Philharmonia and Richard Hickox's Pioneering Pilgrim series marked the 50th anniversary of the death of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.... more

Pushing musical boundaries

12.05.08

Tsunami is not an elegy for victims of a natural disaster but a monodrama about a man whose life is in pieces following a marital break-up.... more

The Vaughan identity

30.04.08

He has been out of fashion for more than 50 years, but now composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's vision of Englishness is being celebrated once again.... more

An innovative performance

29.04.08

The world premiere of Thomas Adčs’s In Seven Days: Piano Concerto with Moving Image was a triumph, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

Dr Who takes a bow at Proms

09.04.08

A new Doctor Who story will be screened at a special Prom dedicated to the TV show... more

Co-ordinates are set for the Proms, Doctor

09.04.08

A special episode of Dr Who, written by Russell T Davies and presented by Freema Agyeman, is to be screened at the Albert Hall as part of the BBC concert series.... more

Achingly cool at Skylon

19.11.07

It may sound like a hotel on the outskirts of Heathrow, but Skylon strikes exactly the right note.... more

Tears and joy as puppet pulls at heartstrings

18.10.07

War Horse is a fine, lyrical, emotionally charged piece of theatrical work that evokes a vanished, hierarchic England at war, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Violinist to perform music she inspired

24.09.07

Rising violinist Nicola Benedetti will this week perform the premiere of a piece written for her by the composer Sir John Tavener.... more

Scintillating homage to Vaughan Williams

03.08.07

From the slightly twee to the meticulously crafted, this playful and fantasy filled homage to Vaughan Williams at the proms holds its head very high.... more

All-Brit prom by an old hand

27.07.07

Last night's all-British Prom by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Sir Andrew Davis showed off their considerable talents. ... more

Critics choice: Top five classical events

18.01.07

Concerts devoted to Elgar, Mozart's classic The Marriage of Figaro and the Crouch End Festival Chorus all feature among Barry Millington's picks.... more

Dame Judi makes merry in sorry Wives' tale

13.12.06

The Royal Shakespeare Company has embarked on an expensive gamble by inflicting this flamboyantly awful, musical version of The Merry Wives Of Windsor upon us, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

An anniversary well worth celebrating

08.11.06

For half a century the RVW Trust has helped the careers of young, upcoming composers and its invaluable work was celebrated in a 50th Anniversary Concert.... more