The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra will perform at this year’s Proms, the BBC has announced. The musical group is made up of musicians who are now refugees and Ukrainian members of European orchestras, ...

Berlioz’s Requiem has such immense scope and room for magical interpretation, too. Thierry Fischer flailed his arms, incensed and possessed, but he was unable to coax the BBC National Orchestra of ...

Minnesota Orchestra will make an impressive stopover while traveling to South Africa this summer. Announced Thursday, the orchestra will take the stage Mon., Aug. 6, at London's Royal Albert Hall for ...

The Proms 2025 may be over, but there’s still time to catch up on the highlights at home. With 86 concerts on offer, there is something for everyone – from Beethoven symphonies to an eight-hour Prom ...

There's a very good chance we may yet hit Lisztian gold at the Proms with Marc-André Hamelin's Wednesday late-night recital and the demonic treats promised in the Budapest Festival Orchestra's visit, ...

Fantasia Orchestra make their BBC Proms debut this year, with two proms at the Royal Albert Hall in August, with an exciting and eclectic repertoire of folk songs, dances, prayers and incantations, ...

You also wouldn’t have expected, until it was announced a few weeks back, a big Mahler symphony in a slimmed-down Proms season. This was really the brass’s evening; the horn section, too, was ...

Part of the pleasure of multi-work programmes like this ought to be that you're teleported from one extreme to another, as in the most imaginative Prom I attended last year, when Thomas Dausgaard and ...

At the same time, and hearteningly, the prospect of Andrew Manze’s Vaughan Williams bonanza clearly put few people off. The Albert Hall was packed, the audience concentration considerable, the ...

To be honest, not really. But no matter. We were engaged. The work followed convention. The soloists never really departed from their showman role; the orchestra remained the backdrop. At one stage ...