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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra will perform at this year’s Proms, the BBC has announced. The musical group is made up of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the Proms heads into its final weeks, the procession of visiting orchestras and soloists becomes truly stellar. Over the ...

Fantasia Orchestra make their BBC Proms debut this year, with two proms at the Royal Albert Hall in August, with an exciting and eclectic repertoire of folk songs, dances, prayers and incantations, ...

The solo oboist gets a workout in this concerto for oboe, bassoon, violin, and cello by Czech Baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, directed by Gottfried van der Goltz ...

Planned or not, these drastic contrasts prepared the ground for the volatile monster to come: Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony, with its huge lurches and topples from darkness to light, and back again.

In the third of their four Proms this year, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra presented a broad programme featuring works by Mozart, Schumann and Jonathan Harvey. The latter’s enigmatically-entitled ...

Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales reveal how composers as varied as Purcell, Brahms and Elizabeth Ogonek have turned to the hypnotic repeated pattern of the ‘chaconne’. The ...

Protestors interrupted a performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at a BBC Proms concert last night at London's Royal Albert Hall. Several demonstrators in the venue shouted as Zubin Mehta ...

Ryan Wigglesworth conducted the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He began with his own composition: an elegy for the BBCSSO’s former leader Laura Samuel who died, at 48, last year. Scored for string ...