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A view from the terrace of the biggest arts centre in the biggest city in Europe, which ought to be our pride and joy Dear Southbank...

I'm not sure that listening to a completely terrifying performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11 was the best way to spend my bi...

It's Groundhog Day: everyone is dissing the Proms. Every year the same thing happens: the niche interests complain that their particular...

Spent most of yesterday driving to and from Aldeburgh with the OH to experience a very special night of Strauss and Elgar at the Snape Proms...

Happy Shakespeare's Birthday, everyone!  There are Shakespeare concerts absolutely everywhere tonight and I'm off to do a pre...

How do you fill a large hall for 20th-century repertoire? Play Rachmaninov. Composers who lived through these turbulent and violent times bu...

"Join us to explore how war, race, sex and politics shaped  the most important music of the 20th century"! I've just b...

I don't think it was really meant to be funny. But I found myself glued to the webcast of yesterday's Diamond Jubilee River Pageant ...