Another all-Beethoven concert? But was this the Singapore Symphony's best in our writer’s 45 years of concert-going?
Plunging straight into icy waters seems a typically Finnish thing to do, so perhaps it was no great surprise that Klaus Mäkelä opened his London Symphony Orchestra debut with Tapiola. Sibelius’ final ...
Buffetted from symphonies, opera and ballet to West End musicals, film scoring sessions, and maybe even Glastonbury, the life ...
There’s nothing intrinsically wrong about the standard overture-concerto-symphony concert format. But to be a real success, all three pieces have to work an awful lot better than they did in last ...
The Australian Ballet's first commissioned full-length work in 20 years, based on the life of Oscar Wilde, fails to fully ...
At London's Wigmore Hall, Julian Prégardien and Sir András Schiff reveal Schubert's great song cycle as it once may have sounded.
La exultante sensación de revuelo y alegría propiciada en la primera parte encontró su contrario en la siniestra y atormentada Tercera sinfonía de Prokofiev. Poco humor encontramos en esta obra que, ...
Sakari Oramo and the BBCSO are in their element in rich repertoire including Szymanowski, Pejačević, Wagner and Strauss.
Francesca Dego's dazzling performance of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto shares the stage with erotic Liszt and vivid Schubert.
A double bill of great contrasts, common ground[s] with Germaine Acogny and Malou Airaudo, and Bausch's Rite of Spring with ...
With gloriously inventive sets and costumes, Alex Esposito's splendid Four Villains drive a wonderfully entertaining new ...
C’est plus qu’un oratorio à écouter ou un ballet à admirer que nous offrent les artistes réunis pour l’occasion : il s’agit d’un véritable voyage ésotérique, entremêlant sensoriel et symbolique.