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There is some seriously good news this morning: actual progress in the upper echelons of a London orchestra. Karina Canellakis is announced ...

Farewell to a dear friend and wonderful cellist, Susanne Beer, who died yesterday at the age of 52. She was co-principal cellist of the Lo...

Saturday was a day I shall remember for a very long time. When strange things connect, when music does what it was meant to do, when people...

Another opening, another LPO show - except that this wasn't. I'm still reeling from the brickbat impact of Vladimir Jurowski's T...

I’ve just had a terrific Skype chat with the young Russian violinist  Alena Baeva , ahead of her London debut at the Royal Festival Hall on...

...oh, look. It's our very own London Philharmonic Orchestra, whose Australian CEO, Tim Walker, is quoted in a Telegraph article extol...

Serendipity! The London Philharmonic is playing the Schumann Violin Concerto at the Royal Festival Hall on 8 November (soloist: Patricia Kop...

Quick note: if you're around the Southbank Centre for the Belief & Beyond Belief Festival today,  please pop along to the pre-concer...

New home: the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg [PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS THE JDCMB APRIL FOOL'S DAY POST 2017] The London Philharmonic Orches...

A spot of musical escapism after a very dark night. Tonight I'm chairing a panel discussion with five American composers who happen to...

Medici.tv is live-streaming Mahler Symphony No.2 from Mexico City right now - the LPO is on tour there and the conductor is Alondra de la Pa...

...this was the result. ESPN roped in the LPO to help with its Wimbledon promotion, along with Kate Winslet, who does the narration. I am ...

Born in Colombia, living in Vienna, flexing his muscles and charming the everything off everyone, to judge from this video from Portland, ...

Congratulations to STEPHEN LLEWELLYN, winner of the JDCMB 'Chacun a son gout' competition. Yes, bizarrely enough, that is indeed the...

I'd hoped to give a full report on the glittering party that followed the LPO's anniversary concert the other night: the fantastic b...

Seventy-five years ago today, the London Philharmonic Orchestra gave its first concert. On the podium was its founder, Sir Thomas Beecham. ...

Baden-Baden , where I plucked up the courage to join Tom & the orchestra for a Tristan-dash (check in Heathrow 7.30am, plane delayed 1.5...

It's true! Korngold's biggest, greatest opera is finally to receive its UK premiere, nearly 80 years after it was written. The Londo...

The London Philharmonic Orchestra announced today that 34-year-old Russian conductor Vladimir Jurowski is to take over as its principal co...

After - how many?! oh no!! - decades of living in London and attending its various flawed concert halls, I had a huge surprise the other day...