What better for a sultry summer evening than a Prom programme of reflective, sensual French music played by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under its chief conductor Donald Runnicles?... more
Barry Millington wishes the London Arts Orchestra well, but if it is to make an impact in these straitened times, it needs to sharpen its presentation. ... more
Trainer was widely criticised for ditching his stable jockey Jimmy Fortune last winter but that decision was vindicated following Buick's big-race international double... more
The gods blessed Carmen's premiere with much better weather than Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Melisande. Even the drone of an overhead plane harmonised nicely.... more
If a composer writes a piece paying tribute to cinema, will the results inevitably sound like a film score? John Adams's City Noir suggests the answer is “Yes”. ... more
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
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
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
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