Instrument: Choirmaster / chorus director

It’s always a heart-warming sight to see so many young people at the Barbican as members of the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain shared the stage with equal composure as the London Symphony Chorus and string players from the LSO.

Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic's performance of Mahler's “Resurrection” Symphony properly revealed the tensions between intensity and stillness, resistance and fragility. 

A rare concerto and a familiar choral work anchor a Virginia Symphony concert that celebrates the French musical spirit.

Hamburg's revival of a 2015 production is a musical success, but the director's concepts are sometimes too dense to tell a straightforward story.

Tenor-turned-director José Cura transplants the action from southern Italy to Buenos Aires. 

Nuremberg's opera house launches a new directorial era with an impressive staging of Prokofiev's adaptation of Tolstoy's great novel that incapsulates 200 years of Russian history.

There was a tingle to this concert, as if musicians and audience alike saw clearly for the first time what riches lie ahead.