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  • 2025 BBC Proms: Shostakovich’s Fifth by Heart with the Aurora Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Collon 16-8-25

    Freudian trip: how psychoanalysis and skydiving are helping Aurora orchestra open up Mahler’s First

    When Mahler premiered his first symphony, it left audiences baffled. For their latest Prom, Aurora are bringing it to life – with the help of Sigmund Freud
  • A man stands on stage surrounded by oversized pieces of sheet music.

    Review
    Tao of Glass – stage magic as McDermott meditates on the minimalist master

  • Prom 64: Berlioz’s The Trojans, Berlioz The Trojans 235’ (concert performance; sung in French with English surtitles) Alice Coote Cassandra Michael Spyres Aeneas Paula Murrihy Dido Lionel Lhote Coroebus Adèle Charvet Ascanius Alex Rosen Narbal Ashley Riches Panthus Beth Taylor Anna Monteverdi Choir Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique Dinis Sousa conductor

    Tom Service on music
    I thought Nolan’s Odyssey was an epic bore. If you want Greek myths brought to life, try the thrill of opera!

    Tom Service
  • Conductor Sakari Oramo raises his baton while leading the BBC Symphony Orchestra with violinists visible behind him

    Proms review
    BBCSO/Oramo – Turnage’s satisfying and clever Festen Suite makes UK debut

  • A woman in white stands on stage before a kneeling man, with a large chorus arranged on monumental stairs behind them

    Bayreuth festival review
    Rienzi – Wagner’s early opera makes its Bayreuth debut as frenzied contemporary election drama

  • A conductor in a blue suit raises his baton and hand while leading an orchestra. Kazuki Yamada and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

    Proms 2026 review
    CBSO/Yamada – Poulenc and Adams pairing is stylish, witty and thrilling

  • Pianist Mitsuko Uchida sitting at a large piano on a wooden stage in a concert hall

    Album of the week
    Beethoven: The Last Three Sonatas/Mitsuko Uchida - the music emerges as if new

  • The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth perform Judith Weir’s Moon and Star.

    BBCSSO/Wigglesworth / Booth review – Brett Dean’s song cycle is rich and strange

  • Alison Langer as Rosalinde and Harry Wilson as Dancer in Die Fledermaus, Opera Holland Park© Craig Fuller

    Die Fledermaus review – Strauss staging has flourish and froth, but not enough fizz

  • BBC Proms From the Alps to the Auvergne photocredit BBC Chris Christodoulou 27.07.26 (18)

    LPO/Gardner review – squirrels, shepherdesses and a tumultuous storm

  • A large choir in black stands on tiered risers behind an orchestra and conductor, performing in Gloucester Cathedral

    Three Choirs festival review – impressive opening salvo full of crackling energy and exuberant fireworks

  • Composer John Tilbury at the piano

    John Tilbury: At Home album review – an eclectic and extraordinary treasure trove

  • A female opera singer performs with an orchestra, wearing an embellished black gown, hand on chest

    Giordano: Marina album review – a fascinating resurrection of an unsung early opera

  • Conductor Kenneth Woods in front of an orchestra during a performance

    John McCabe: Symphonies 2 & 3 and Cello Concerto album review – writing of enormous scope and colour

  • Composer and technologist Robert Laidlow smiles at the camera against a grey backdrop

    Robert Laidlow: Reality Eaters album review – wildly imaginative and intricate, but eminently approachable

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  • Anthony Hopkins

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    ‘Music was my first desire’: Anthony Hopkins releases single

  • Stephen Hough sits at a grand piano with sheet music open in his studio

    Dazzling, delightful – and unfairly dismissed: Stephen Hough on the art of the transcription

  • Benjamin Britten with raised baton stands before an orchestra and choir in a brick concert hall

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    The experience that coloured everything Britten went on to write

  • Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Glasgow City Halls - 22 September 2022 –

    Interview
    Mentors, muses and new music: conductor and composer Ryan Wigglesworth

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