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, ...

In October 2019, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra visited Japan for the inaugural BBC Proms Japan. Taking place from 30 October to 4 November in Tokyo and Osaka, the six-day festival saw Chief ...

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 ...

Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem is a too-often neglected early statement of the pacifist convictions Britten would so express so monumentally at the latter end of his career in the War Requiem. Recently ...

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 ...

With its Trojan horses, ballets and massive crowd scenes, this grand five-act opera based on the fall of Troy and establishment of Rome is both a director's nightmare and an audience's dream, ...

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 ...

The programme opened with a new co-commission from the British composer Richard Ayres, who, like Beethoven himself, has had a struggle with deafness. Entitled No. 52 (Three pieces about Ludwig van ...

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, ...

The solo oboist gets a workout in this concerto for oboe, bassoon, violin, and cello by Czech Baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, directed by Gottfried van der Goltz ...