The programme, including Isabelle Faust’s tireless performance of Schumann’s suppressed Violin Concerto, was a reminder of ...

Simon Rattle and the BRSO’s account of Mahler’s tricky seventh symphony is direct and vivid. Though it was launched without a great deal of fanfare, five years before he took over as the Bavarian ...

Simon Rattle, guest conducting the period instrument ensemble, brought insights and detail to these three lesser known works by Schumann. Isabelle Faust was a spirited and graceful soloist in the Viol ...

Simon Rattle, Isabelle Faust and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra present an all-Schumann programme, including his Violin ...

For those who love out-of-town orchestras, this is a particularly strong season. The Rotterdam Philharmonic brought its tour to an energizing close a few weeks ago. On April 27, you can hear the ...

One of the reasons, if a lesser one, that Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring") created a scandal at its Paris premiere on May 29, 1913 –more than a century ago now– was that, ...

Now here's a creative way to promote your upcoming symphony season and up your brand: Strap your conductor in a motion capture suit, switch on a dozen high-tech cameras, and get an artist to translate ...

As Adès premieres an orchestral work, “The Exterminating Angel” is receiving something rare in contemporary opera: a new production. By Joshua Barone Not everything was an artistic or audience success ...

The Beatles aren't the only shaggy-haired musicians with a decades-long attachment to EMI. The venerable label is celebrating 30 years with conductor Sir Simon Rattle, music director of the Berlin ...

The Prom was Sir Simon Rattle's last appearance in the UK before he heads to Munich - but we certainly haven’t seen the last of him Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author ...