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Lost on a train and reconstructed, Herbert Howells's youthful String Quartet No 3 is paired with the String Quartet No 6 by his teacher, Charles Wood ...

The bass-baritone on nerves at King Charles's coronation, upsetting conductor Daniel Barenboim, and a nasty dog bite ...

The 97-year-old conductor led the Philharmonia - on exceptional form - in one of the finest performances of Mahler's epic Ninth Symphony one is likely to hear.

Mark Wigglesworth began his tenure as the BSO's Chief conductor with a bold programme of Wagner, Walton and Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand - to which Nicholas McCarthy brought delicacy and drama ...

Programme for company's move north includes Glass's Einstein on the Beach, Britten and a new youth company ...

Composer Richard Dubugnon has given colourful life to previously unknown songs by the great French author's youngest child, whose life descended into tragedy ...

This distinctive collection brings cabaret, country dances and a streak of melancholy to bear ...

The 97-year-old Herbert Blomstedt is in London today to conduct the Philharmonia. He is one of a very long line of maestros working well into old age ...

The singers were on wonderfully expressive form for this performance of Hugo Wolf's song cycle - one of music's great disquisitions on the nature of love ...

The North American musicians and their Venezuelan conductor brought a programme of Habibi, Berlioz and Beethoven - with Javier Perianes the soloist in his first piano concerto - to London ...