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The British Youth Opera stages the stars of the future

07.09.09

The British Youth Opera offers young singers a opportunity to be professional but without the pressure and the humdrum routine... more

Harrison Birtwistle's brilliance is unmasked at Proms

18.08.09

Placing Harrison Birtwistle alongside Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood is eccentric, even perverse programming but that’s what the Proms are for... more

Emotion milked to gratifiying effect with Karabits

11.08.09

The latest instalment of the Stravinsky ballet cycle was offered by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Kirill Karabits. ... more

Stravinsky season is kept in Czech

28.07.09

The prom by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jiri Belohlavek began the sequence of Stravinsky ballets.... more

Pick of the Proms - from Bollywood to Barenboim

26.05.09

No other festival offers so much for so little money. Here is a round-up of the concerts not to be missed as part of this year's Proms festival.... more

The world goes Coco Chanel crazy

11.05.09

She liberated women from the corset. Her friends included Cocteau, Picasso and Chaplin. No wonder Coco Chanel (1883-1971) is the muse for the coolest names in fashion... more

Bold move from Valery Gergiev and LSO

08.05.09

The programming of Valery Gergiev's concert with the LSO at the Barbican Hall was bold but also astute.... more

Teacher writes finale to Cannes in school hols

24.04.09

Goodbye Knole Park, hello the South of France. The Croisette is some distance from Sevenoaks, the Palais du Festival some way from the staff room and closing the Cannes film festival the kind of good fortune which screenwriters the world over dream about ... more

Adčs pulls the strings

04.11.08

An attentive Kings Place audience burst into whoops at the close of an all-Stravinsky recital which launched this week’s Aldeburgh on Tour series.... 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

Off the record: Liam joins the choir

17.10.08

Oasis have made some unlikely friends in 50 Crouch End choristers.... more

Unbashed romanticism in Oedipus Rex

24.09.08

Festival Hall's gala event celebrated Esa-Pekka Salonen's first concert as principal conductor of the Philharmonia.... more

Jurowski not so slow to ctach on

08.09.08

An ogre from Russian folklore met himself face to face in the LPO's Prom conducted by Vladimir Jurowksi.... more

Knight of passion in the park with Iolanta

04.08.08

Wonderful though the music is, characterisation is wooden in Tchaikovsky's one act Iolanta, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

Hell comes to Hollywood in Rake's Progress

08.07.08

Robert Lepage's production of Stravinsky's Rake's Progress boasts such an ingenious conceit as to annihilate quibbles.... more

Playing into spring

07.04.08

The National Youth Orchestra's rendition of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring seemed to jolt the audience to life and the gifted teenageres proved their worth at the Barbican Hall concert.... 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

Slow Progress

29.11.07

The Rake's Progress features an alternating cast, but an over-choreographed production did no-one any favours.... more

Those classical-meets-jazz blues

15.08.07

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra sounded like fish out of water in Marcus Roberts' Rhapsody in Blue at the Proms.... more

Triumph on epic scale

20.07.07

Vassily Sinaisky shaped this large-scale canvas with masterly command, drawing superb playing from the BBC Philharmonic at the Proms 2007.... more

Stravinsky in Cyberspace

27.06.07

Rites at the Festival Hall is a mixed-media masterpiece featuring some astonishing digital wizadry.... 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

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

Experiment pays off for LPO

14.12.06

The LPO's latest programme at Queen Elizabeth Hall featured three works that all engage with the past in different ways, plus a world premiere.... more

Clark gets everything Rite

31.10.06

The roller-coaster ride that is British dancer-choreographer Michael Clark's career has taken an upward surge at the Barbican as he continues his trilogy of works to the giant Stravinsky scores.... more

Cosy makeover for Pulcinella

25.10.06

However well or averagely they are performed, a mixed bill of Stravinsky ballets always pulls you in, especially when they're from the Diaghilev era, says Sarah Frater.... more

A faune in combat with the present

17.10.06

D'un soir un jour opens with a silent re-enactment of L'Apres-midi d'un faune, only with a woman rather than a man.... more

Great start to a leap year

06.10.06

The company shone as the Royal Ballet leapt into action at the start of its 2006/07 season. But it was the men, says Sarah Frater, who dominated.... more

New Yorkers miss out

18.08.06

Proms replacements for the security-stranded Orchestra of St Lukes - the City of London Sinfonia - perform admirably at short notice.... more

Bolshoi triple lacks dazzle

15.08.06

This summer's Bolshoi visit will surely be remembered for Alexei Ratmansky's The Bright Stream. Sadly, you can't imagine anyone wanting to see this triple bill again, says Sarah Frater.... more