Among the many visiting orchestras this year are four of the greatest in continental Europe. Simon Rattle will make his first visit to the Proms as chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony ...

Only two hours after the super-trio of pianist Emanuel Ax, violinist Leonidas Kavakos and cellist Yo-Yo Ma left the stage of the Albert Hall, the world’s most revered orchestra the Berlin Philharmonic ...

Daniel Barenboim, the famed and famously political pianist and conductor, delivered a moving call for European unity while conducting a BBC Proms concert by the Orchestra Staatskapelle Berlin on ...

Here is Siegfried, the third in Wagner’s Ring cycle, sprawling in length, not over-strong in characters, yet in the Proms setting the rather over-extended character scenes cede to the extraordinary ...

Taking off for a few days to Dorset meant losing touch with the Proms, which have been glorious so far this year, my absolute favourite concert the lunchtime chamber music programme of French chansons ...

Whether formally or informally, Promenaders knew two years ago that Daniel Barenboim would be conducting an entire Ring Cycle over a week at the 2013 festival. Anticipation over the past few months ...

What is there to be said about the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra that hasn’t already been said? For twenty-five years it has united Arab and Israeli musicians under the baton of Jewish co-founder ...

Initial signs were that this Prom would provide an ideal match of conductor, orchestra and repertoire. As a taster for the main course was Schubert’s Mozartian Fifth Symphony, acknowledged as his ...

This Prom was a success largely for the fresh perspectives he brought to Mozart and Bruckner, both composers prone to stiffness and formality from less adventurous performers. If the Mozart was the ...

(AP) Some people go to the seashore during the summer. Some go to the countryside. Roger Wright goes to Royal Albert Hall. As the BBC’s man in charge of the Proms, which proudly bills itself as the ...