Artiste: Ryan Bancroft

Ryan Bancroft’s LSO programme, inherited from Simon Rattle, mixes attractive English folksong-inspired pieces with more challenging, late 20th-century works.

Before a searing performance of Shostakovich's Thirteenth from Ryan Bancroft and his Welsh forces, Benjamin Grosvenor delivers a terrific performance of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major. 

Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales provide a Mahler 3 of exceptional clarity and forward momentum, with terrific posthorn solos from Corey Morris and Beth Taylor an outstanding soloist.

The UK’s premier summer classical music festival offers the chance to get up close to some of the world’s finest orchestras – a transformative experience at any age.

The new chief executive of the Stockholm concert hall talks about her own distinctive approach to shepherding a major classical music venue in the 21st century.

Entering his second season in post, the young American Chief Conductor of the RSPO talks about how he got the job, Bruckner, Mozart, MacMillan and more.