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If orchestras were football teams, the LSO would certainly be in the running for the Premier League title

Beacon, Bristol Soloist Alison Balsom delivered Marsalis’s playful new trumpet concerto with poise, expertise and wit – right down to the animal calls

Antonio Pappano has stepped smoothly into Simon Rattle's vacated shoes

Boulez’s 100th and Rattle’s 70th are among the highlights of the LSO’s new season with chief conductor Antonio Pappano in which British music is a strong thread. The orchestra also announced an £8m redevelopment of LSO St Lukes

Barbican; Hackney Empire; Royal Opera House; St Mark’s church, London Dread runs through John Adams’s pulsating new short symphony; Stravinsky’s Rake has plenty of company at ETO; Bryn Terfel returns as the mythical Dutchman; and two…

Barbican, London In an all-American programme works by composers from Gershwin to an Adams world premiere were superbly presented by Rattle and LSO, with Harris’s 1939 symphony a revelation

Premiering John Adams' 'Frenzy' with lush Gershwin and stormy Harris was inspired

Theatre Royal, Glasgow; Coliseum; Barbican; Royal Festival Hall, London A day in the life of the father of communism is full of laughs in Scottish Opera’s new production of Jonathan Dove’s buoyant farce. Elsewhere, notable house debuts at…

Barbican, London Singer-turned-conductor Nathalie Stutzmann presented Bruckner’s unfinished Ninth with his Te Deum, making an eloquent and majestic statement

Pakistani singer Atif Aslam is making a Bollywood comeback after a hiatus of seven years, contributing a song to the upcoming film Lovestoryof 90’S (LSO’90). Director Amit Kasaria provided insights into securing Aslam's involvement…

Barbican, London Antonio Pappano conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and an excellent lineup of soloists in this superbly detailed and rousing performance

Barbican, London Gianandrea Noseda and the LSO made a strong case for the 1947 version of Prokofiev’s Fourth symphony, and Simon Trpčeski was an insightful and elegant soloist in Brahms’s second piano concerto

Rarely does this concerto get the outing it deserves, but Noseda coaxes magic from the music

Barbican, London In Bartók and Chausson, violinist Isabelle Faust was elegant and expressive, and conductor Duncan Ward brought colour and focus to orchestral showpieces by Debussy and Janáček

Cumnock, Ayrshire; Barbican Centre, London James MacMillan’s inspiring four-day festival brings together top-class professionals and local performers, and Antonio Pappano gives the Barbican a tantalising taster

Barbican, London Fazil Say’s theatrical ‘1001 Nights in the Harem’ was terrific fun, played with exhilarating precision by the LSO and soloist Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Rachmaninov of drama and power ended a concert full of colour

Barbican, London Wheezing harmonicas and tinkling music boxes enliven Hannah Kendall’s elemental new work, while Alice Sara Ott gave a barnstorming account of Liszt’s Totentanz in a programme masterfully led by the London Symphony…

This marked Sir Antonio Papano’s first concert as chief conductor designate of the London Symphony Orchestra

WHAT: GNE will showcase the latest developments and roadmaps for NaaS, an industry model designed to help enterprises achieve business outcomes without owning, building, or maintaining their own infrastructure. The LSO Global Summit will…

Barbican, London The London Symphony Orchestra’s associate artist Barbara Hannigan conducted a programme that mixed mainstream repertoire by Haydn and Strauss with less familiar music from the second half of the 20th century.