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Stars pitch up to back Lord Mayor's appeal

17.11.09
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London Symphony Orchestra to showcase youthful talent

29.10.09
VIDEO: The LSO On Track Youth Orchestra is set to play a special concert at the Barbican.... more

Gigs of the week

23.10.09
Fleetwood Mac play Wembley Arena and king of rap Jay-Z is set to take over Alexandra Palace.... more

Soundcheck: Musicians invading new genres

23.10.09
Pop can no longer contain Sufjan Stevens, whose latest album, The BQE, is a multi-format extravaganza. And now there is a fresh ambition among musicians... more

A magnum opus with Valery Gergiev

25.08.09
Valery Gergiev brought “his” band, the London Symphony Orchestra (he’s its principal conductor), to the Proms.... more

Mahler's death song has new life

21.07.09
Bernard Haitink's Proms performance of Mahler's Ninth Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra was not short on grandeur or pathos. ... more

Meet Valery Gergiev - the total conductor

23.06.09
Valery Gergiev reveals the missing link between Richard Wagner and Dutch football as he prepares to bring his revamped Ring cycle to London.... 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

Chinese opera devised by 3,000 children wins classical award

13.05.09
A Chinese opera created by 3,000 primary school children in Hackney has won one of classical music’s top awards... more

Faults become virtues for Lang Lang

21.04.09
From his extravagant dress sense to his high-end product endorsements, it's hard to ignore Lang Lang.... more

Music drive strikes a chord with Sting

14.01.09
Sting is to donate a guitar to the Mayor's instrument amnesty in a drive to give every child in London the chance to learn to play music... more

Bloc vote winner in Overture

03.11.08
The scale of choreographer Royston Maldoom's ambition is extraordinary and it's matched only by the children's success in Overture.... more

Antony out of the shadows for breathtaking sound

31.10.08
Antony & The Johnsons' pure, quivering, utterly unique sound made the elaborate musical backdrop of the LSO seem almost drab in comparison.... more

Donatella Flick is real maestro

01.10.08
Donatella Flick has little time for the BBC's reality show — her £15,000 competition for young talent, takes conducting seriously.... more

Previn and Little hit right note at awards

25.09.08
Andre Previn was honoured with a lifetime achievement award at one of classical music's most respected awards ceremonies... more

A harpist's world of words

21.07.08
Californian harpist Joanna Newsom floated into Somerset House, London's grandest outdoor venue, and sprinkled some fairy dust.... more

Barbican on music mission

20.06.08
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

Dr Who takes a bow at Proms

09.04.08
A new Doctor Who story will be screened at a special Prom dedicated to the TV show... more

The man mesmerising London

25.03.08
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

Seductive Soviet propaganda

03.03.08
Under conductor Xian Zhang, the London Symphony Orchestra enjoyed upstaging Sergei Eisenstein's film, in their presentation of Alexander Nevsky.... more

Mahler the magnificent

25.09.07
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

St Paul's rings out for modern-day water music

11.09.07
A modern equivalent of Handel's Water Music will be performed on the Thames on Friday.... more

Gergiev wins approval

29.08.07
The Proms audience roared approval at an imaginative all-Russian concert by the London Symphony Orchestra and their new principal conductor, Valery Gergiev. ... more

Adams's mystifying but soothing eco-fable

13.08.07
John Adams's new opera, A Flowering Tree, shuns the contemporary politics of Nixon in China and turns to ancient South Indian mythology.... more

Bronze for Berlioz

27.06.07
This thrilling hybrid work is an insane pleasure that leaves the audience as exhausted as the performers.... more

Irresistible if obscure

23.03.07
Daniel Harding marked his appointment as the London Symphony Orchestra's principal guest conductor with a wild, if sometimes woolly finale.... more

Chilling portrait of a warrior

19.02.07
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

Superstar Norah is casual but classy

15.01.07
Norah Jones may be characterised as tastefully middle of the road, but hers is no mere coffee table music, says Chris Elwell-Sutton.... more

Never mind the B**bican

19.09.06
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

Gergiev dazzles as the Proms erupt

21.08.06
Not everything was perfect, but as Valery Gergiev conducted the London Symphony Orchestra at the Albert Hall on Friday he confirmed himself as the world's most exhilerating conductor.... more

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