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The BBC Proms changed the face of classical music when ‘the people’s festival’ was launched in 1895. The perennially popular event features some of the nation’s favourite tunes from composers inspired by the countryside of the British Isles. Here Kitty Corrigan selects her top ten

A major concert takes Yorkshire to the world on Yorkshire Day, August 1. The man orchestrating the whole affair, Ben Crick , explains…

Lea Kampmann, Teitur Lassen et al Stunt Records STUCD24092 It seems fitting that the small archipelago of the Faroe Islands, set in the chilly North Atlantic between Iceland and Scotland and now notor

Given the many hours he’ll be spending practising and rehearsing, not to mention travelling around the globe from concert hall to concert hall, Aristo Sham will possibly not have a lot of time for sho

German conductor Anja Bihlmaier studied at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and later at the Mozarteum Salzburg, before holding posts at Staatsoper Hannover and Staatstheater Kassel. Since then, she