As we celebrate the English composer’s 150th anniversary, we reflect on ten of the best works he wrote, including The Planets ...

Music is meant to be fun. If it were not fun, I would have stopped doing music long ago. And yes, sometimes I have worked ...

Host Christopher O’Riley and the young musicians team up to “punk” Bell, but nothing stands in the way of their outstanding rendition of the Scherzo from Dvorak’s Piano Quintet in A Major.

BBC Proms/ BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Martyn Brabbins ★★★★☆ Sir Andrew Davis, who was to have ...

The symphony was allowed to unfold without any of the oppressive hectoring that can dominate Bruckner, the interior lament of ...

In the scherzo movements in particular, as MTT explains, strange instruments and uncomfortable juxtapositions combine to create a sense of unease. Or were these all premonitions? The "hammer-blows ...

The conductor and pianist Emanuel Ax found new things in familiar works at the Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall ...

The self-conducted string orchestra Sphinx Virtuosi returns to Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on October ...

The conductor led the New York Philharmonic in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, an inspiring opening night for a season starting off ...

Equally, there was far more to Gustav Holst than his world-famous, frequently performed and endlessly recorded (there are ...

Over two nights in London, the orchestra delivered lively Schumann, theatrical Smetana and Bruckner’s gripping Fifth ...

Guest conductor Edward Gardner led Stravinsky’s ‘Petrushka’ and Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony in the opening concert of the ...