Mark Forrest showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe. We end our week-long focus on our BBC Orchestras ...

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra perform Shostakovich’s Suite for Variety Orchestra.

Expect 86 concerts over eight weeks with every note broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds, and 24 Proms programmes on BBC TV and iPlayer ...

Sunday afternoon’s concert by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra was a more extraordinary event than it appeared from the repertoire’s headline performance of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. It may not ...

Passions run high as countertenor Hugh Cutting sings Jonathan Dove’s dramatic Hojoki – plus orchestral showstoppers by Liszt and Dorothy Howell. “Sensational” was how one critic described the singing ...

In a pairing that could not be more apt, London’s Public Service Broadcasting here mark the centenary of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), the first and last bastion of errr…public service ...

In this special and one-off event led by the BBC Proms, author of Atonement and one of the finest writers of his generation, Ian McEwan collaborated with the BBC symphony Orchestra and read extracts ...

Wagnerian completists in the audience can never get enough Wagner, especially around bicentenary time. The achievement of the promenaders who stood last night for five hours of Wagner is impressive - ...

Even the companion piece was wisely chosen, though strictly speaking there needn't have been one given the exhausting dimensions of the symphony. It was healthy to pick a Mozart piano concerto, better ...