While nearly all the Proms play in front of full or nearly-full houses, the Albert Hall was especially packed for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales – and it was easy to see why. The world’s ...

A recent online article for a paper which should know better posits well-known classics as “lowbrow”. When it comes to Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini or Holst’s The Planets, there’s no ...

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The BBC National Orchestra of Wales impressed under their new principal conductor Ryan Bancroft, not least in Augusta Read Thomas’s Dance Foldings, that opened proceedings. Part of a set of Prom’s ...

Thomas Dausgaard had been due to conduct, but the virus deprived us even of him – travel restrictions prevented his coming to Glasgow. But Alpesh Chauhan proved a fitting stand-in. Like Dausgaard, ...

Aigul Akhmetshina, the star mezzo (and ubiquitous Carmen) who sang in Ravel’s Shéhérazade song-cycle, went with the flow herself in a notably collegiate performance that impressively blended her own ...