Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra will perform at this year’s Proms, the BBC has announced. The musical group is made up of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the Proms heads into its final weeks, the procession of visiting orchestras and soloists becomes truly stellar. Over the ...

Still, if ever an opera were going to work in the cavernous Royal Albert Hall then it would be Les Troyens. First, there are the sheer forces involved, with its huge orchestra requiring three harps, ...

Mäkelä will become Chief Conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2027, and this performance was a good demonstration of the supple intimacy that has already developed between him and the ...

It’s a great pairing; the orchestra’s sound is as generous as Alsop’s gestures, with a string section that moves from silvery violins to Caravaggio-black basses, and the sheer heft of the band is more ...

Did he know he was conducting Beethoven Nine, not Bruckner Nine or Mahler Nine? Twice, I did a double take. Two or three times it felt like Daniel Barenboim's speeds were about to kill the symphony ...