Articles by Rohan Shotton

Nicholas Collon leads Auorora Orchestra through an effervescent account of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. 

Andrew Manze conducts the RLPO in a performance of Bruckner in which beauty was always kept to the fore

Ben Gernon conducts the BBC Philharmonic in an all Beethoven programme centered around the monumental Third Symphony.

Omer Meir Wellber conducts his first Bridgewater Hall concert as Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic.

Cristian Măcelaru conducts The Hallé in music by Copland, Bernstein and Gershwin, plus his own arrangement of Jake Heggie's Moby Dick.

Ludovic Morlot conducts a French and Russian programme in Manchester, with a thrilling performance of Ravel's bimanual piano concerto by Steven Osborne as the highlight of the evening.

Alexander Joel conducts The Hallé in Mahler's First Symphony and Korngold's “Hollywood” Violin Concerto. 

Joana Carneiro conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a lively Mendelssohn concerto and elegant Mahler Fifth.

Ludovic Morlot conducts Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette with The Hallé.

Vasily Petrenko opens his penultimate season with RLPO in raucous style.

The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra bring an entertaining programme of Mozart and Rachmaninov to the Proms, followed by an unexpected “Gift from China to the UK”.

Georgia Jarman proves a flamboyant soloist in Szymanowski's Love Songs of Hafiz. 

Bruckner for the non-Brucknerian: the Philharmonia plays the Fourth with Schubertian delicacy at the Royal Albert Hall. 

The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra bring a wonderfully bucolic programme of Czech music to The Proms.

The world premiere of Philip Glass and Phelim McDermott's latest collaboration.

Jonathon Heyward steps in for Sir Mark Elder to conduct The Hallé in Shostakovich's Leningrad.

Edward Gardner conducts a richly entertaining account of Berlioz's masterpiece in Birmingham

Mahler 2 must be mother’s milk for the CBSO Chorus, though they sang with affecting passion from their soft, seated entry to towering last peroration of the Resurrection hymn.

Mark Elder conducts Mahler 2 with The Hallé in a measured but utterly compelling performance at Bridgewater Hall

Vasily Petrenko conducts Zemlinsky, Mendelssohn and Bruch in Liverpool.