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London Philharmonic opens the Pandora's box of impressionism

4468 days ago
Guardian MusicThe LPO's concert on Saturday, which we're streaming live, promises to return to one of music's perennial questions: how does music represent the world?The London Philharmonic's concert on Saturday, which we're streaming here live, raises, realises, ... more info

Prom 63: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle – review

4469 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Albert Hall, LondonIf the Berlin Phil has anything as prosaic as a comfort zone, the bulk of this programme wasn't it. Of the five composers in the first of their two Proms, only Wagner was an obvious fit for their trademark sound, as velvety a... more info

Debussy: Preludes Books 1 & 2 – review

4469 days ago
Guardian MusicPierre-Laurent Aimard(Deutsche Grammophon)Pierre-Laurent Aimard's much-publicised recent claim in an interview with a German newspaper that Debussy is a greater composer than Wagner is by no means original – it was also made in an influential study... more info

Suk: A Summer's Tale; Prague – review

4469 days ago
Guardian MusicBBCSO/Belohlávek(Chandos)A Summer's Tale is one of three symphonic poems that Josef Suk composed in the wake of his great Asrael Symphony, which he had completed in 1906 as a memorial to his wife and to his father-in-law Dvor˘ák. Jirí Be˘lohláv... more info

Introduction to Royal Academy's From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism

4470 days ago
Guardian MusicCurator MaryAnne Stevens introduces the exhibition that forms the backdrop to the London Philharmonic's Music in the Courtyard concert on Saturday 1 SeptemberFrom Paris: A Taste for Impressionism, Paintings from the Clark brings together 73 masterpie... more info

LPO Music in the Courtyard - programme notes

4470 days ago
Guardian MusicJoin us on Saturday 1 September at 7.30pm for the first ever classical music concert to take place in the Royal Academy's historic courtyard. The programme of French music complements the RA's current exhibition, From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism... more info

Prom 56: BBCSO/Knussen – review

4474 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Albert Hall, LondonFixed points in the Proms come in many guises. One of these, never formally announced as such but an annual staple nevertheless, is the season's Oliver Knussen Prom. The Olly Prom has its own fixed points, too: a clutch of co... more info

Brasileiro: Villa-Lobos and His Friends – review

4477 days ago
Guardian MusicNelson Freire(Decca)Built around works by the greatest of all Brazilian composers, Nelson Freire's celebration of piano music from his native country is pure delight. The longest of the 30 tracks here – the fifth of Villa-Lobos's Choros, a series t... more info

Django Reinhardt: music, mischief and magic

4480 days ago
Guardian MusicDjango Reinhardt was a Gypsy jazz genius who kept on living in his caravan long after he found fame. Guitarist and devotee Martin Taylor explains why he has written a Prom in his honourI'm always being asked when I first heard Django Reinhardt's musi... more info

Proms 16 & 17: BBC Now/Wigglesworth; West-Eastern Divan Players – review

4504 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Albert Hall, LondonHugh Wood has been regularly supported by the Proms since Scenes from Comus, the work that made his reputation, was first performed there in 1965. Four further commissions have followed, all substantial scores; among them is ... more info

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