A couple of moments aside, she more than held her own, supported by conducting from Yannick Nézet-Séguin (pictured below) that mostly took care to respect the venue’s aural peculiarities. Even a ...

Nézet-Séguin clearly adores this score and was a bundle of energy on the podium, whipping up his orchestra, making its Proms debut, into a supercharged rendition. Priapic horns rang out lustily and ...

Isabelle Faust plays Dvořák's colourful, folk-inspired violin concerto. Andris Nelsons leads the orchestra in Sibelius's second symphony, with its powerful associations with Finnish identity and ...

Angel Blue's extraordinary Knoxville and a sunlit Dvořák Eighth Symphony made this Chineke! Prom one of the summer's finest evenings Heyward’s conducting, as for last year, was both flexible and ...

Having only been established in 2015, it's important to remember the impact of the Chineke! Orchestra on classical music. Not only championing Black and ethnically diverse musicians, it also ...

Two of these works were composed in New York, one by a Czech composer visiting to administrate and teach (and homesick with it) and the other by a Frenchman who made a permanent move to the US and ...

Live at the BBC Proms: Chineke! Orchestra conducted by Jonathon Heyward with soprano Angel Blue in a programme including Barber and Dvorak Presented by Katie Derham, live from the Royal Albert Hall, ...

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“Do you believe in a life after birth?” Sunday morning was no ordinary Prom, as Martin Fröst and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra delved into the idea of exploring the DNA of Beethoven via new ...

The orchestra will play in six halls in the Washington area and tour to five states as the center moves to shut down for a two-year overhaul. By Adam Nagourney The National Symphony Orchestra on ...

That path led, last night, to the European premiere of the concerto written for him by Gabriel Kahane: a singer-songwriter rather in the Rufus Wainwright mould as well as a composer. It occupied the ...

Skyline by Édith Canat de Chizy (born 1950 in Lyon) is a “Concerto for three percussionists, timpani and orchestra”, a BBC co-commission. This UK premiere of the fifteen-minute piece (presumably ...