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Olympic closing ceremony will be 'celebration of British music'

5377 days ago
Guardian Music — Two-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

5379 days ago
Guardian Music — Orchestra 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

5379 days ago
Guardian Music — First 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?

5382 days ago
Guardian Music — How 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

5398 days ago
Guardian Music — LSO 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

5406 days ago
Guardian Music — Barbican, 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

5414 days ago
Guardian Music — Barbican, 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

5421 days ago
Guardian Music — Warwick 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

Live music: coming up

5421 days ago
Guardian Music — Take a look at the gigs our writers will be reviewing this week, and tell us about any live music you've seen recentlyEach week we share a list of concerts our writers will be reviewing. Here's what they'll be writing about in the next few days (all ... more info

LSO/Davis – review

5454 days ago
Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonSir Colin Davis's ongoing exploration of the six symphonies of Carl Nielsen with the London Symphony Orchestra is not presented in numerical order; it was the second that provided the climax of this penultimate programme in their Barb... more info

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