Guardian Music — Matthews’s fellow composers pay tribute to his music’s luminosity and teeming creative energy in this exclusive clip from a film made to celebrate his 70th birthdayThe composer Colin Matthews celebrates his 70th birthday this year, an o... more info

Guardian Music — St John’s Smith Square, LondonFour composers, young and old, unite to make a big impact with an evening of new music led by conductor Martyn BrabbinsFour premieres filled a bristling London Sinfonietta concert conducted by Martyn Brabbins at S... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonAntonio Pappano offered a turbulent and heady account of Elgar’s Second Symphony, fixing it firmly in the post-Romantic tradition where it belongsAntonio Pappano has gravitated towards Elgar’s music of late. His Barbican... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThe composer’s late oratorio is the work of a man looking back at life with great contentment, even as he contemplates its closeThis season marks the London Symphony Chorus’s 50th anniversary, and central to the celebrations are p... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonAlready on his third LSO outing of this season, the orchestra’s music director-in-waiting offered work that was anguished, imposing and apocalypticIt is a year and a half before Simon Rattle officially takes over as music director o... more info

The Telegraph — Ivan Hewett reviews the London Symphony Orchestra's Prokofiev Piano Concertos at the Proms 2015 more info

The Telegraph — The London Symphony Orchestra brought freshness and wonder to Haydn's Paradise Lost-inspired oratorio, says John Allison more info

Stereogum — Sasha Siem is one of the youngest people — let alone women — to win the prestigious British Composer Award. She did so in 2010, composing for prestigious institutions like the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Siem ... more info

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