While nearly all the Proms play in front of full or nearly-full houses, the Albert Hall was especially packed for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales – and it was easy to see why. The world’s ...

Here are the highlights of the month in classical music, with details of where you can listen at home. Read our guide to Britain’s ten greatest orchestras and the best classical concerts to book now ...

The conscious spotlighting of women composers, who have in fact been quietly active on the scene for decades - nothing much one can do about previous centuries of sidelining and neglect - seems to be ...

Always remember, too, that for many it will be a first time, and - if the newcomer is well advised - from the best place in the entire, capricious Royal Albert Hall, acoustically speaking, standing in ...

Only two hours after the super-trio of pianist Emanuel Ax, violinist Leonidas Kavakos and cellist Yo-Yo Ma left the stage of the Albert Hall, the world’s most revered orchestra the Berlin Philharmonic ...

The BBC Proms 2023 launches with a programme bursting with opera, oratorio and large-scale choral work and the first ever weekend-long Proms festival rooted in the North-East at Sage Gateshead. The ...

A recent online article for a paper which should know better posits well-known classics as “lowbrow”. When it comes to Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini or Holst’s The Planets, there’s no ...

You may question whether the touring schedule is ever going to change now: the responsibility of flying less seems quickly forgotten. Yet orchestras can take the train within Europe – and I mean ...

After years of campaigning from fans of the medium, video game music will finally make its debut in the BBC Proms this year, with a performance of several gaming scores presented in a new concert as ...

The industry is celebrating another cultural milestone after video games scores were added to the library of culturally significant music played at the BBC Proms. The annual event has run in some way ...