Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Austrian composer’s Concerto Grosso No 1 and Strauss’s Alpine Symphony were nimbly scaled by the BBCSOGeorg Friedrich Haas may be one of the leading composers of today, widely performed around Europe and increasingly in the US too, but until this concert by Ilan Volkov and the BBC … Read entire story.

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Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe BBC National Orchestra of Wales’s principal conductor signs off with a performance of heady abandonThis was Thomas Søndergård’s last concert as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales’s principal conductor and he bowed out in style with Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, in a performance of cogency and splendour. … Read entire story.

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Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Proms were treated to starry covers of Scott Walker’s 1960s classics, but they didn’t always invoke the songwriter’s own spirit of inventionIn an interview broadcast a few days before this concert of reinterpretations of Scott Walker’s late 1960s albums, Walker gave Jarvis Cocker, one of the … Read entire story.

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Royal Albert Hall, LondonDaniel Barenboim led the peerless German orchestra through two Proms concerts, including a spectacular performance of Harrison Birtwistle’s new work Deep TimeHarrison Birtwistle once said that he feels that he is constantly composing the same piece, that each new work makes a different journey through the same … Read entire story.

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