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Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony, Serenade to Music – review

4416 days ago
Guardian MusicRochester Philharmonic/Seaman (Harmonia Mundi)With the chimes of Big Ben rising through the fog of the soft-footed opening bars, Vaughan Williams's London Symphony sings of a city still recognisable, however dramatic the changes since its 1914 premie... more info

Hallé/Elder – review

4418 days ago
Guardian MusicSymphony Hall, BirminghamThe prospering closeness between the Hallé and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is proving to everyone's advantage. Here was the Hallé giving a concert in Symphony Hall while Andris Nelsons and his orchestra contin... more info

Olympic closing ceremony will be 'celebration of British music'

4439 days ago
Guardian MusicTwo-and-a-half-hour production to close London 2012 will be 'elegant mash-up of British music', says creator Kim GavinFresh from flipping her middle finger at the Brits and breaking sales records on both sides of the Atlantic, a ubiquitous 23-year-ol... more info

London Symphony Orchestra announces concerts in Trafalgar Square

4441 days ago
Guardian MusicOrchestra says it will battle elements and noise in central London to bring music to widest possible audienceIt may turn out to be a titanic battle with unpredictable elements and noisy traffic but the London Symphony Orchestra was confident of succe... more info

LSO to launch Trafalgar Square concerts

4441 days ago
Guardian MusicFirst of annual outdoor concerts by LSO and young musicians to take place in central London on 12 MayThere have been operas, riots, movies, even a maze there, but this might well be the first time a full symphony orchestra has pitched camp in Trafalg... more info

Must the concert platform also be a catwalk?

4444 days ago
Guardian MusicHow does it feel to work in a classical music industry that prizes beauty almost as much as brilliance? Violinists Nicola Benedetti and Alina Ibragimova should know…The face of classical music once belonged to an old man, usually an octogenarian co... more info

LSO/Tilson Thomas – review

4460 days ago
Guardian MusicLSO St Luke's, LondonBesides being regarded as one of the greatest founding fathers of 20th-century modernism, Claude Debussy is also one of music's most intriguing might-have-beens. When he died in 1918, at the age of 55, Debussy seemed to be on the... more info

LSO/Tilson Thomas – review

4468 days ago
Guardian MusicBarbican, LondonDebussy's early Fantasy for piano and orchestra gets few outings – it had none whatsoever in the composer's lifetime – but it formed the centrepiece of the first concert in the London Symphony Orchestra's series focusing on the Fr... more info

LSO/Adès – review

4476 days ago
Guardian MusicBarbican, LondonThe first performance of a revised version of Hidd'n Blue, by the 26-year-old Spanish-born, London-based Francisco Coll, formed a brief upbeat to this London Symphony Orchestra programme conducted by Coll's teacher, Thomas Adès. The ... more info

LSO/Pappano – review

4483 days ago
Guardian MusicWarwick Arts Centre, CoventryThere was an all-English, all 20th-century programme for Antonio Pappano's latest guest appearance with the London Symphony Orchestra, in which Elgar's First Symphony was the focus. It is always fascinating to hear a cond... more info

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