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

Rattle, milking it. (Photo: LSO) Critic's hat for the day here: I reviewed Simon Rattle, Janine Jansen & the LSO for The Arts De...

One conductor's plane delayed in a snowstorm is another's....opportunity. Not that the snow helps. Last Sunday George Jackson was h...

Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No.2, 'The Age of Anxiety', isn't so much a symphony as a piano concerto-stroke-tone-poem. Ba...

Rattle and the LSO. Photo: Doug Peters/PA THIS IS RATTLE. The posters greet you at the main entrance, on the programme cover, everywhe...

Jonas Kaufmann in recital the other night. Photo: Alastair Muir/Barbican State of being in the Discount Tent EC1 last night post- Walkü...

Today a dream has come true for the LSO.   They just confirmed that Sir Simon Rattle is to take over as music director in 2017. Congratulati...

Elim Chan Photo: Clive Totman/LSO The Donatella Flick Conducting Competition was won last night by Elim Chan, a 28-year-old conductor f...

...he had a real go at the early music brigade. Blimey, guv. The results of this are in today's Independent. Still, you don't talk ...