With a spiralling staircase accessing a rooftop observation platform, the Grand Opera’s open architecture is intended to ...

American violinist Karisa Chiu took the prestigious Gold Medal at International Violin Competition of Indianapolis this month ...

Not all of his decisions necessarily work, but Igor Levit’s playing sings in piano sonatas that range from the expansive Op.7 ...

Cologne reopens its opera house after a 14-year refurbishment, but their new Rosenkavalier sells the performers and the ...

Brahms’ two monumental piano concertos conducted by Tarmo Peltokoski take centre stage in a packed De Doelen Hall, Rotterdam.

Welser-Möst keeps Bohuslav Martinů's seemingly unruly orchestral scoring wonderfully lucid as The Cleveland Orchestra visits ...

To mark the 90th birthday of Steve Reich, Staged Variations sees three ensembles tackle the composer’s seminal Music for 18 ...

In Liverpool, an exploration of gay themes makes Gavin Higgins' extensive and virtuoso Clarinet Concerto a work which will surely become a mainstay of concert programmes in years to come.

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra’s strings present a programme of British music from the Renaissance to the present day, ...

As warhorses go, operas don’t come much better than Carmen. This new production from State Opera of South Australia boasts an excellent cast in a well judged dramatic performance, with a more than ...

Briefly, the plot revolves around the eponymous Japanese heroine, a naïve young woman who becomes the object of obsession for the wealthy Osaka, who has her abducted and taken to his palace in the ...

Agony, ecstasy and a double murder: Bill Barclay and The Gesualdo Six combine for a theatrical concert celebrating the life – and death – of the Renaissance composer.