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Tree of dreams blossoms with Gergiev

21.09.09

No promoter feels safe until Valery Gergiev's actually on the rostrum but once there, his absorption and charisma are all-encompassing.... 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

Chanel’s Lagerfeld puts the fashion back in ballet

17.06.09

It was a case of high fashion both on and off stage at Sadler’s Wells.... more

Derek Paravicini, the 'human ipod', is truly gifted.

09.06.09

Derek Paravicini has been called a musical savant, an autistic genius and, less flatteringly, the human iPod.... more

Rainbow View has still got the class to shine through

04.06.09

Horse racing: There was no pot of gold for her backers at the end of the 1,000 Guineas, which left plenty finding flaws in Rainbow View... more

Crowded House Derby challenge is still not certain

01.06.09

Horse racing: Crowded House is a surprise inclusion among 13 entries unveiled at the six-day stage for the Derby at Epsom... more

Maazel shows his magic touch

03.04.09

If a little dramatic character went missing, the closing funeral march had a real feeling of grief barely choked back in Maazel's show.... more

Julietta brought alive by staging

30.03.09

Belohlávek kept things moving, making smooth transitions between speech and song, and reaching a powerful conclusion in Julietta.... 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

Tokyo Sonata does credit crunch, Japanese style

29.01.09

Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa won a Jury Prize at Cannes for Tokyo Sonata, a drama about Ryuhei Sasaki.... more

Twilight is a teen vamp thing

18.12.08

Is it wise to fall for a bloodsucker? Twilight is a fantasy that makes it look harmless enough.... more

Debussy's elusive masterpiece

19.11.08

Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, premiered in 1902, may be the first great opera of the 20th century yet it remains marginal repertoire.... more

Barbirolli Quartet are timbre merchants

19.09.08

In terms of quantity and quality, Schubert's string quartets constitute a major body of work. A shame, then, that the Barbirolli Quartet could find room for just one.... 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

Stock exchanges at the Proms

04.08.08

Barely scratching the surface of Stockhausen's career, the Proms' tribute nevertheless demonstrated what makes him so fascinating.... more

Twice as impressive

20.05.08

The stimulating double bill of Hiromi and Mina Agossi offers an unusually wide spectrum of feminine wiles, says Jack Massarik.... 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

A full-frontal attack

21.11.07

Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos gave the players and singers of the Philharmonia their heads in an uncompromising performance.... more

Pianist with a big appetite

28.09.07

Czech pianist Ivan Moravec showed that even at nearly 77, he has not lost his appetite for strenuous programmes.... more

Youths rise to Wagner challenge

26.09.07

The London Schools Symphony Orchestra was magnificent in this weighty programme, whispering sympathetically and soaring confidently. ... more

Rich sounds of the Concertgebouw

28.08.07

The sounds that the Royal Concertgebouw, led by Bernard Haitink, made at the Proms were as remarkable as ever.... 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

Sex and death in Italy

30.07.07

A breathless eroticism pounds through Montemezzi's L'Amore dei tre Re as violently and noisily as a stampede of horses over cobbles, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

The thrill of Prokofiev

15.06.07

Valery Gergiev conducted a thrilling performance of Prokofiev's rarely heard Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution. ... more

That's your Lott

15.05.07

Internationally acclaimed soprano Dame Felicity Lott sings a selection of French melodies at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.... more

Passion boxed in

14.05.07

Musical standards ruled, even if the tedium of the Pelléas and Mélisande production did its devilish and level best to hijack minds and flatten imagination.... more

Short on thrills

30.03.07

Valery Gergiev might be a regular visitor to the London concert scene, but Barry Millington warns against prejudging his music. The Russian conductor is not as predictable as he makes out.... more