It's always disappointing when a top performer has to cancel, but when the London Symphony Orchestra's subs' bench can call up such an able replacement as Maria João Pires, no one is likely to complain... more
Viktoria Mullova and John Eliot Gardiner have recorded the Beethoven Violin Concerto on period instruments; they came together to perform it with the London Symphony Orchestra... more
He was the conductor nobody wanted among the orchestras of Britain. So now teenage music prodigy Alexander Prior is leaving London to take up an appointment in America after being turned down 'everywhere' here... more
The Barbican is to become London's biggest "afterschool club" by providing free concerts and music lessons for some of the capital's poorest pupils... more
Love it or hate it, the LSO's Mahler cycle is the latest hot ticket. That, says its hair-raising conductor Valery Gergiev, is because 'together we are saying something new'.... more
Under conductor Xian Zhang, the London Symphony Orchestra enjoyed upstaging Sergei Eisenstein's film, in their presentation of Alexander Nevsky.... more
Valery Gergiev's Mahler series with the London Symphony Orchestra may not be an original calling card but the Russian can do no wrong, says Nick Kimberley.... more
Joshua Bell's vigorous account of Brahms's Violin Concerto was the triumph of the London Symphony Orchestra's Janacek Day, says Fiona Maddocks. ... more
Punk rock, the raucous voice of rebellion in the Seventies, is to be celebrated with an exhibition at one of Britain's most august arts institutions.... more
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