Emerson Quartet command a loyal and excited following at Wigmore Hall. And with the changing landscape of chamber music, their stock is ever rising.... more
Daniel Barenboim sold out the Festival Hall eight times over with his Beethoven piano cycle. With demand for classical music at an all-time high, it's no wonder London is gaining two new halls.... more
Saturday's Prom, spirited into energetic life by Mark Elder, showed the 150-odd teenagers of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain on fine form.... more
Flitting between St Petersburg, Cardiff and the Barbican, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and Chorus are seemingly inexhaustible, says Barry Millington.... more
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
Daniele Gatti and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's performance of Shostokovich's 10th Symphony at the Albert Hall was perfectly judged, combining patience with explosive energy.... more
We've had ample opportunity this year to hear Russian music played by Russians. Last night was the turn of a Korean cellist, Welsh orchestra and Japanese conductor, and it wasn't quite the same.... more
Fluent and fluid, the Orchestre National de France, under the direction of Kurt Masur, achieved something quite remarkable at the Albert Hall last night.... more
Kurt Masur can be trusted to deliver Hans Werner Henze's opera with all the ferocity it demands when he conducts the Orchestre National de France at the Proms tonight.... more
Take one elite European youth orchestra, add a dashing young conductor and you have the perfect raw materials for two scores throbbing with sexual intensity.... more
Not everything was perfect, but as Valery Gergiev conducted the London Symphony Orchestra at the Albert Hall on Friday he confirmed himself as the world's most exhilerating conductor.... more
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
Classical review: The BBC Philharmonic has a solid grounding in Russian music and, in Vassily Sinaisky, it has a principal guest conductor who can be relied on to make Shostakovich work. In the case of the composer's Eighth Symphony, that is no mean achievement.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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