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Fame is highly unlikely to live forever

25.09.09

Quite why anyone decided to make another version of Christopher Gore and Alan Parker�s exhilarating 1980 film, Fame, is beyond understanding... more

It's Beethoven on the ukelele, by George

11.06.09

Anyone trying to get in touch with their inner George Formby is being invited to take up the ukelele and join a mass rendition of Beethoven's Ode To Joy... more

Venezuelan youth orchestra to star in the new season at Festival Hall

14.04.09

The orchestra now hailed as the most successful youth music project in the world is taking up residence in the Southbank Centre... more

End this downloads ban

25.02.09

As a Dutch radio station celebrates Haitink�s 80th birthday with free music online, it�s time for the BBC to stand up to the music industry... more

Power and great glory

27.01.09

Stephen Kovacevich powered almost recklessly through the virtuoso variations of Beethoven�s 33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli.... more

Flowing blonde on cello in Brodsky Quartet

30.10.08

The Brodsky Quartet play with familiar empathy. Three of them have been together since student days nearly three decades ago. ... more

Pianist's pianist Schiff excels with Beethoven

07.10.08

Andras Schiff, named today as one of the Evening Standard�s 1000 Influentials, opened the autumn leg of the Temple Festival 2008 with a recital of four middle period sonatas. ... more

There's no regulating the speed at which peasants merry-make but at the Proms, in Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony No6, performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, they were going for gold.... more

Fantastic Fifth with Robertson

29.07.08

The challenge to make the impossibly famous Beethoven's Fifth Symphony score fresh is harder than tackling a knotty world premiere, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

Rattle to conduct every Schumann symphony

18.04.08

Sir Simon Rattle will conduct all Schumann's symphonies and pianist Alfred Brendel will play his final London concert in the new classical music season at the Southbank Centre... more

Bringing turbulent energy to Brahms

04.03.08

New York-based ensemble the Emerson Quartet drew a well informed and totally attentive audience for their series of three Brahms concerts. ... more

Epic cycle sheds new light on Beethoven

11.02.08

As Daniel Barenboim's magisterial cycle unfolds, those at the Festival Hall are in no doubt they are witnessing something monumental and unique.... more

Ill but not off-key

05.02.08

Daniel Barenboim is no ordinary pianist and in performances of this stature, one has flickering glimpses of Beethoven himself at the keyboard.... more

A night with music's master communicator

29.01.08

Daniel Barenboim is a man who likes to live dangerously and whose credo is articulated through his music-making.... more

A star quartet

22.01.08

The exhilarating Takacs Quartet are ideally matched in warmth of tone and personality, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

The piano player who sounds like an orchestra

16.01.08

After accepting Palestinian citizenship, Israeli Daniel Barenboim is to perform 32 Beethoven sonatas in London.... more

A promising ensemble

24.12.07

The Dominant Quartet is a very personable all-female ensemble, establishing itself as one of the most promising of the younger generation.... more

Composers don disguises

11.12.07

The Britten Sinfonia's performance was precise and danceable, where shared pleasure in music-making was worth more than merely superficial gloss.... more

Fast finale

13.11.07

The Emerson String Quartet attracted a capacity audience for their three-evening cycle of Bach's Art of Fugue and Beethoven's Opus59 "Razumovsky" Quartets.... more

Brahms blasted by the brass

06.09.07

The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly brought a palpably less well nourished tone to Beethoven and Brahms.... more

New backstory for Beethoven

16.08.07

Copying Beethoven sees actor Ed Harris not only looking like the genius composer, but spitting out his well-written lines with real panache.... more

Choral sympathy for Beethoven

16.07.07

After last year's cancellation of Beethoven, Proms traditionalists would have been gratified by its inclusion twice this year.... more

Elgar and Walton kick off the Proms

13.07.07

The 113th Proms kick off tonight at the Royal Albert Hall with some of the most popular works in the classical canon... more

Tribute to 'forgotten' violinist

03.07.07

The Dante Quartet performed Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata and did not sell the drama short in their performance... more

The five-star Festival Hall

12.06.07

The refurbished Royal Festival Hall received top marks from Barry Millington for its opening concert featuring all four resident orchestras.... more

Rescued just in time

29.05.07

The first half of this Fidelio was something of a Sunday afternoon doze - but it jerked into life after the interval, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

Predictable programme but lucid playing

17.05.07

Classical performers get criticised for predictable programming, but sometimes it makes absolute sense, as with pianist Imogen Cooper's assembly of Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert.... more

Steered to safety by sublime melody

20.03.07

Wild, knotted, near insane in its intensity, The Emersons conquered Beethoven's Grosse Fuge Op133 long ago.... more

Bach concert is a joy

19.12.06

Gladness and rejoicing dominated a concert of four Bach cantatas for Advent conducted by John Eliot Gardiner and performed by his peerless Monteverdi Choir.... more

Bono is just like Beethoven

22.11.06

Despite an age difference of 200 years, 'huge similarities' have been noted between two very different musical icons - Bono and Beethoven - writes Daniel Bates. ... more