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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

When Myners saw McFall for a cosy chat...

30.04.09
How intriguing. Just what were City minister Lord Myners and Commons Treasury Select Committee chairman John McFall talking about so animatedly the other night? ... 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

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

Car makers could go to court over Mayor's £25 C-charge

15.02.08
Leading car makers are considering a legal challenge to proposed changes to the congestion charge... 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

Impressive tale of passion and piety

28.06.07
Thaïs had not been performed at Covent Garden for 80 years and provided a showcase for a top soprano and baritone.... more

All the drama of the Nativity

20.12.06
Hector Berlioz's The Childhood of Christ may not enjoy the status of Handel's Messiah, but it is nevertheless a Christmas perennial.... more

They're not waving but drowning

12.10.06
The Guardian, a paean of praise for the US Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers, covers every Hollywood cliché in the book, and then some, says Derek Malcolm.... more

Chopin becomes pure gold

31.08.06
Chinese pianist Lang Lang brought a touch of magic to Chopin's Piano concerto No 1 in E minor at the Proms. But what was to follow, says Barry Millington, was utterly mesmerising.... more

Americans offer orchestral alternative

30.08.06
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has become one of the most exciting ensembles in the US over the past few years. Tonight, Prommers will get a chance to hear them for themselves.... more

Mass for a secular age

07.08.06
Proms review: Julian Anderson does not shirk his responsibilities. Faced with composing for chorus, he joined a choir so as to experience choral music from the inside, research that seems to have paid off, says Nick Kimberley. ... more

Imagined hope and glory

03.08.06
Classical review: Elgar never completed his set of Pomp and Circumstance Marches - but conductor Andrew Davis led the way through one compiled from fragments. Barry Millington watched the new march's world premiere. ... more

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