Chopin goes viral in Bulgaria

The BBC Proms schedule, made public last night, contains plenty of temptations. – There’s the Vienna Philharmonic, rarely spotted in London nowadays, playing a cheerful pair of symphonies, Bruckner 9 and Tchaikovsky Pathetique. – My […]

Any mention of Kosovo draws instant associations with the Balkan wars of the 1990s. This, however, is going to be its new opera house, designed by Denmark’s Bjarke Ingels Group. It is magical, inviting, peaceful. […]

Kwamé Ryan, music director of the Charlotte Symphony, says he owes it all to Cbeebies: … Whenever I hear people refer to orchestral music as arcane or incompatible with young ears, it occurs to me […]