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Winter in Canberra seems more memory than dream these days but this was an imaginative and satisfying experience.

Daniel Jaffé discovers the best recordings of Borodin's Symphony No. 2, a bravely experimental and colourful work that changed the course of orchestral music

Admired by several notable contemporaries, the man once dubbed ‘the French Beethoven’ is surely ripe for reappraisal, says Misha Donat

My intellectual hero, St. Thomas Aquinas, said that if we want to live a happy life, we should love what Jesus loved on the cross and despise what he despised on the cross. What did he despise but all of those objects of false worship to which we tend to erect altars.

★★★★☆The Sinfonia of London has become one of the hottest tickets in town since an exhilarating live debut at the Proms in 2021, and this year its appearance, w

William Dart reviews APO's Brahms 1 concert.

Gerald Barry’s deliberately muted new work, Kafka’s Earplugs, failed to make an impact in this venue, while James Ehnes was a deft and impressive soloist in Walton’s violin concerto

Coming to Tanglewood this weekend are three programs featuring works by Wolfe, Messiaen, Berlioz, Ravel, Reid, Paganini and Prokofiev.

ADRIAN THRILLS: Damon Albarn isnt one for big, emotional gestures, so the frontmans response to the adulation that greeted Blurs two celebratory Wembley Stadium shows this month was surprising.

This stunning Prom featured Stephen Hough balancing bravura with lyricism in Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto, the premiere of Grace-Evangeline Mason’s quietly effective Ablaze the Moon and a finely judged reading of Mahler’s First Symphony