Ivan Hewett

“If you've gone too far,” said Jean Cocteau, “there's only one thing to do: go further.” The team involved in this intermittently amusing but

The evenings are just beginning to shorten, Wimbledon and the World Cup have passed, the grass is starting to look parched. You could almost think the best of the summer is over. But for classical music lovers it’s just starting. The Proms have launched, a brilliant sunburst of music extending for eight weeks right through to the autumn. There are 86 concerts, including 20 new pieces, great international orchestras, stellar soloists. It’s a feast, as always.

Ivan Hewett The world's biggest classical music festival is upon us and this year's programme is truly spectacular.

What would “prog rock” sound like… without the rock? That was the question underlying this peculiar yet entertaining concert as Prog went to the

Given that all the concerts are free to listen to online, the Proms offer a chance for an orchestra to shine on a wider stage, and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra has certainly seized that opportunity....

It's fair to say Wynton Marsalis , virtuoso jazz trumpeter, artistic director of the Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra (JLCO) and prolific composer, is not a man to do things by halves.

Once again, social class is becoming a flashpoint in the arts. It really shouldn't be, because diversity and equal representation have been the watchwords of the arts for decades.

Jazz history is littered with “damned souls”. These are the troubled individuals who struggle with drink, drugs and debt while living in chronic insecurity, always on the move from one failed relation...

Kasper Holten’s 2014 staging of Mozart’s darkest work gets its sixth revival with striking turns from Aigul Akhmetshina and Gordon Bintner

The Royal Opera's new season is nothing if not ambitious. There are 10 new productions, including the unveiling of the final instalment of Barrie