It is not just at the Proms that Vaughan Williams’s star is in the ascendant, whether or not you trace the phenomenon to the special impact of Andrew Manze’s landmark

It’s a fairly unusual concert when a major work by Beethoven is by far the less maverick and more lyrical item, yet that was the case here with the Violin

Billed as a 90th-birthday celebration for Steve Reich, this Late Night Prom seemed in certain respects a missed opportunity. If the headline performance of Reich’s masterly Tehillim was the main event, the

Urban myth or not, it has been alleged that the BBC once turned down a proffered Proms visitation from the Bavarian State Orchestra under Kirill Petrenko, possibly on the grounds

As Bamberg Symphony Orchestra chief, Antonio Pappano’s successor at Covent Garden, and music director designate of the Czech Philharmonic, Jakub Hrůša cannot have much time for guest conducting these days.

Goethe’s Faust appealed to the 19th century psyche with its themes of the search for immortality, the nature of humankind, ageing, good, evil, love, damnation and redemption. The best-known vocal setting

A not-quite full house had braved unseasonable rain to hear two fiercely individualistic (and borderline unpronounceable) artists from the former Soviet bloc in masterpieces by peripatetic Russians, themselves loosely bound

This, the second of the orchestra’s Proms appearances, started with Kaija Saariaho’s Lumière et pesanteur (Light and Gravity) that was adapted from her oratorio La Passion de Simone. Lasting less than ten