With super-cool conductor Jules Buckley, the iconic Dutch orchestra Metropole Orkest and a selection of London’s hottest grime stars, Late Night with BBC Radio 1 Xtra was a treasured ticket. The…
Indelibly associated with the glamourous world of 1950s and 1960s Hollywood, this music feels comfortable, wonderfully easy to listen to. But behind each swelling chord, there’s a great deal of…
An interminable evening of self-regarding narcissism doesn’t bode well for the supposed future of classical music as promulgated by BBC 6 Music: chuck in a few waterfall sounds, or add…
For over 20 years the Gonzagas paid him late, ignored his personal tragedies, and treated him in all practical terms with cruel contempt. Monteverdi, nevertheless, created extraordinary music in the…
Dance music has certainly come of age culturally when the superstar DJs have MBEs (Pete Tong was awarded his in 2014), and it moves from the dark nightclub floor to…
The BBC Asian Network Prom was the first such adventure for the radio station. In a night of many firsts, it seems Watford-born producer Naughty Boy is also the first…
A masterfully penetrating performance of Strauss’ Elektra at this year’s BBC Proms, conducted by the renowned Semyon Bychkov and starring Christine Goerke, whose command of this fiercest of roles has drawn…