It’s hard to know where to begin with Jones’s musical CV. He’s had a towering career in jazz, film music and pop, and any one of these genres could enough provide material from him to fill a series of ...

2024 is The Year of Czech Music, and what better way to mark this at the Proms than to invite the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra to play music of their homeland in two concerts. Wednesday will see ...

Although not performed that frequently today, Robert Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri proved highly popular when it premiered in 1843, with interest in the piece only dwindling half a century ...

Everything’s there in the opening minute. We get our first, wonderful. ear-wormish theme straight away, from the subtle grenadilla wood of a lone clarinet in A. Then we hear it build in what seems no ...

John Wilson conducts his orchestra in a celebration of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musicals with 'This Nearly Was Mine' ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Part of the BBC Proms. With its vast performing forces and huge soundscapes, Mahler’s Second Symphony deals with no less a subject than the meaning of life. Wrestling with doubts and questions of ...

Among the many visiting orchestras this year are four of the greatest in continental Europe. Simon Rattle will make his first visit to the Proms as chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony ...