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Ray Eveleigh says playing helps keep his brain active and wife and daughter encouraged him to go for grade 8 ...

The London Symphony Orchestra's concert performance under their chief conductor made a compelling case for Puccini's little-performed opera ...

However brilliantly he negotiates extreme technical challenges, the pianist's maximum-velocity playing remains oddly monochrome ...

Bryn Terfel, Lucy Worsley, Isata Kanneh-Mason, Eleanor Oldroyd, Angel Blue, Charlotte Ritchie, Courtney Pine and more share their festive favourites ...

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonRinaldo Alessandrini and his six superlative vocalists celebrated their 40th anniversary with a return to Monteverdi - the composer with whom they first established their reputation ...

Simon Wills's new concertante ballet, premiered here, proved engaging but too discursive in a concert that also featured Gabriella Smith's Tumblebird Contrails and Ives' first symphony ...

Wang brings her characteristic brilliance to the obbligato line of Messaien's symphony, part of a whole that, under Nelsons and the Boston Symphony, doesn't fully convince ...

Gilbert & Sullivan stalwarts Richard Suart and John Savourin ensure that English National Opera's staging buckles your swashes; and, as apprentice pirate Frederic, William Morgan is genuinely funny ...

Britten theatre, Royal College of Music; Susie Sainsbury theatre, Royal Academy of Music; Royal Opera House, LondonTwo opera studio shows find the next generation of stars in rude health, while the Royal Opera's latest Tosca revival is the ultimate ...

The Czech nobleman and composer's journey from Bohemia to Jerusalem is the inspiration for this rewarding cross-cultural album ...