Sir Simon Rattle's return to the BBC Proms has been highly anticipated, and in this second concert of his appearance with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the focus is on Mahler's most ...

Part of the BBC Proms. With its vast performing forces and huge soundscapes, Mahler’s Second Symphony deals with no less a subject than the meaning of life. Wrestling with doubts and questions of ...

Among the many visiting orchestras this year are four of the greatest in continental Europe. Simon Rattle will make his first visit to the Proms as chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony ...

Any performance of Mahler’s Second Symphony (the “Resurrection”), especially one at the BBC Proms resonating under that unique glazed-iron dome of the Albert Hall, is likely to be a moving experience.

Unlike his predecessor in Berlin, Simon Rattle, Petrenko makes Mahler fly, much more air and fire though not without earthiness when it’s needed (update: when I wrote this, I'd completely forgotten ...

Tonight’s Proms concert featured a tantalising double bill featuring Pierre Boulez’s Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna (1974-5) and the rarely performed original version of Gustav Mahler’s epic student ...

Part of the BBC Proms..None of his works came as directly from his inmost heart as this.’ So said Mahler’s wife Alma of her husband’s Symphony No. 6, a score of such terrifying and ominous power that ...

Katie Derham introduces a Prom concert from the Royal Albert Hall in London, featuring Mahler's Symphony No 8 - Symphony of a Thousand. The choral symphony for orchestra, massed choirs and eight ...

An interesting and logical programme marked the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra’s debut Proms appearance yet unfortunately found fewer advocates at the ticket office, as they played to a half empty ...