Artikel von Roy Westbrook

Is the very, very good the enemy of the great? It is hard to fault a performance as fine as this – except perhaps against a benchmark no longer recognised.

Oliver Knussen and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group excel in a cunningly linked group of works from the old (mid 1980s) to the brand new.

Fifty years on, Argerich is still the legendary tigress of the keyboard, yet more besides.

The Dunedins venture south to show London how to play and sing Purcell.

An old instrument, a veteran star singer, and a late rose all bloom at Oxford's annual songfest.

High Romance in a small Midlands town: the Oxford Lieder Festival opening concert launches an enticing series.

Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra negotiate a challenging first half with works by Bax and Dean, followed by a superb rendering of Elgar's first symphony

Sibelius and Nielsen still in very good hands at the LSO, but whence comes such a gift as that of Daniil Trifonov?

Though the photographic accompaniment was earthbound, Messiaen and the LAPO led us to the stars. 

Not quite a song cycle and not quite a song recital, but the words and music format triumphed in the end at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

Where should the ideal Mahler 5 sit on the Bernstein-to-Boulez spectrum? Saraste and the LPO had a persuasive answer.

Difficult to imagine anyone finding fault with Arabella Steinbacher's Brahms concerto – or finding a similar consensus about Salonen's Sibelius Five.

This superb concert deserved a full house, but there were more bodies on the platform for the Rite of Spring than listeners in the front stalls.

The Festival Director gives himself the onerous task of conducting four of the more elusive masterworks.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra, escaping Proms duty, perform the second of two concerts at Lahti's Sibelius Festival.