Attention, men and women of brass, as well as all discerning music lovers who appreciate the supreme satisfaction in ultra-sophistication. I know that all brass players are Kings of the Jungle, ...

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is regularly called one of the very best — sometimes the best — in the world. Its international tours tend to be akin to victory laps: a collaborative ensemble ...

Under their new chief conductor Daniele Gatti, the orchestra demonstrated why the RCO remains one of the world’s truly recognisable ensembles While the UK tugs at the European laces, others try to tie ...

Continuing his Bruckner series, Mariss Jansons conducted a high-quality performance of the Seventh Symphony, but it was the Ninth Symphony that impressed the most Bruckner symphonies – respectively ...

Something was in the air on Sunday night at the Kennedy Center. Upon arrival, it was a faint funky smell — the unmistakable must of a damp carpet. On Saturday, an incident triggered the Kennedy Center ...

Yet whether the problem was a passing bug or something worse from a conductor brought to the brink of death on the job with a heart attack in 1996, it hardly affected the music-making. If anything ...

BRAHMS, Strauss, and Wolfgang Rihm might all be German composers but the tenuous musical links between them made for a mixed bag of a programme by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Despite Mariss ...

The next evening, in Mahler’s Fourth, they accomplished with joy – and even fun – the transcendence that the previous night’s pain and stress had failed to achieve. Famously, Mahler himself loved this ...

From Vienna to London via Florence, Helsinki and Amsterdam. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, led by Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä, perform a fascinating programme of Luciano Berio’s Rendering and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If the Eurostar starts direct services from London to Amsterdam, we might see even more of the Royal ...