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Among this year's various Ballets Russes centenary commemorations came a nicely conceived programme of music by some of the composers who ensured their immortality.

One of Britain's leading conductors has been honoured by the Queen during a classical concert in London.

In Colin Davis's long career in the opera house, Verdi has never figured prominently among his specialities.

The argument about whether Mahler's No 10 Symphony should be granted full equality with the other nine ought to be old hat now.

For all the confidence and accomplishment of Jorg Widmann's music, there's something profoundly unsatisfying, almost trivial about it.

This year, Halloween in London provided for a truly haunting pairing. That's haunting in the "beautiful! goosebumps!" sense and not the poltergeist one, and it's entirely due to the much-hyped union of the London Symphony Orchestra with Grizzly Bear at the Barbican Centre.

Grizzly Bear and London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, review This year's indie darlings reach new heights with the LSO Rating: * * * * * Posterboys for a certain strain of ambitious, symphonic pop: Grizzly Bear 'Does this feel as fancy for you as it does for us?' asked bassist Chris Taylor as he looked out across the auditorium of the ...

James MacMillan's trumpet concerto, Epiclesis, formed the centrepiece of this London Symphony programme under Kristjan JA rvi.

The "cover" photograph for the DG Concerts release of the performance of Mahler's first symphony by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel Having been interested enough in Gustavo Dudamel's debut as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic to write about both its broadcast on Public Television and the Deutsche ...

This Fall, the classical channel of Bavarian Broadcasting launches BR Klassik, a label for its own orchestras and choir.

The classical music industry has been declared dead several times in the last few years, but it simply refuses to die.

Grizzly Bear in London last month; Chris Taylor, Dan Rossen, Ed Drosle and Christopher Bear P op is no longer scared of classical music.

Classical music has a bright future if two local orchestras have anything to say about it.

As Janos Gereben pointed out on San Francisco Classical Voice, the BBC Proms season has begun; and this summer the concerts are available for "virtual listening" through BBC Radio 3 and the BBC iPlayer Web site.

In the first of Monday's two Proms , Bernard Haitink led the London Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Ninth Symphony.

In July 1909 Mahler was hard at work on his Ninth Symphony. He could not have known that it would be his last completed work or a ' more remarkably a ' that the symphony would turn out to be the last in the great Austro-German tradition to be accepted as a standard work in the classical repertoire.

Grizzly Bear have told NME.COM they find it a "surreal honour" they are going to be collaborating with the London Symphony Orchestra later this year.

Daniel Harding has emerged as an exceptional Brahms interpreter in the last year, so it was perhaps appropriate that he should close the London Symphony Orchestra season with the Second Symphony.