The Proms has to be the greatest classical music festival on Earth, as welcoming to the nervous classical novice as it is to the cognoscenti. This year’s season has already delivered some ...

The Proms 2025 may be over, but there’s still time to catch up on the highlights at home. With 86 concerts on offer, there is something for everyone – from Beethoven symphonies to an eight-hour Prom ...

You also wouldn’t have expected, until it was announced a few weeks back, a big Mahler symphony in a slimmed-down Proms season. This was really the brass’s evening; the horn section, too, was ...

For the first time, the UK’s annual Proms classical music festival will feature a concert dedicated to video game compositions. On August 1st, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, led by conductor Robert ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Premieres of two pieces by Britain's late mystical religious composer John Tavener and a staging of the classic musical "Kiss Me Kate" were among the highlights announced on ...

With Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring now accepted as an annual Proms fixture there comes the danger of an overfamiliarity with the excesses that caused such an uproar at its infamous Parisian premiere of ...

The BBC Proms 2023 launches with a programme bursting with opera, oratorio and large-scale choral work and the first ever weekend-long Proms festival rooted in the North-East at Sage Gateshead. The ...

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will make its debut at the celebrated BBC Proms festival in London this summer as part of its announced European tour. Music director Louis Langrée will lead the ...

What a cause for celebration beyond the sheer feat of freelance musicians coming together, many after a long performing silence (which also meant, mostly, Mahler’s too). What we should perhaps call ...