BBC unveils 2024 Proms lineup: Daniel Barenboim, Daleks and disco
British music, birthdays and building work: LSO announce first season under Pappano
March 2024
The week in classical: LSO/ Rattle; The Rake’s Progress; The Flying Dutchman; Elena Urioste and Tom Poster – review
LSO/Rattle review – Adams’ Frenzy debuts but Roy Harris’s Third is the real discovery
January 2024
The week in classical: Elektra; Jenůfa; Scottish Ensemble with Jasdeep Singh Degun – review
Jenůfa review – muscle and lyricism as Rattle leads superb cast through Janáček’s formidable opera
October 2023
Folk Songs album review – Kožená and Rattle on gleaming, glistening form
The wife-and-husband team’s newest collaboration features Bartók, Berio and Ravel; songs that suit Magdalena Kozena’s voice well
September 2023
The week in classical: LSO/ Rattle; Boston Symphony Orchestra/ Nelsons – review
The LSO gave Simon Rattle an unforgettable send-off in Mahler’s Ninth, while the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons turned on the style with Stravinsky, Ravel and Gershwin
July 2023
Leading actors and artists back Labour’s push for more creativity in schools
Exclusive: Grayson Perry and Olivia Colman lead group of creative figures supporting Keir Starmer’s plan to improve “human” skills
June 2023
The week in classical: Dialogues des Carmélites; Tristan und Isolde; LSO/Rattle – review
LSO/Rattle review – wistful and life-enhancing, a terrific farewell for the departing chief
May 2023
Violin virtuoso joins ‘real battle’ to save classical music from UK funding cuts
Soloist Nicola Benedetti has added her voice to those speaking up for a genre now facing severe financial constraints
April 2023
The arts are in a sorry state at a time when we need them most
Letters: Readers lament the damage to culture resulting from the government cutting funding
Simon Rattle is right: Britain is becoming a cultural desert – and that’s a political choice
Martin Kettle
The arts and classical music say much about us as a country. Labour should fight for their place in our national life, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
Simon Rattle: UK classical music is fighting for life after ‘swingeing’ funding cuts
BBC Singers/LSO review – music, and words, of power as Rattle protests vandalism of UK’s musical life
‘A long-term fight for existence’ – full text of Simon Rattle speech on the crisis facing UK classical music
January 2023
Katya Kabanova review – Rattle and Majeski capture the rapture and chaos of Janáček’s turbulent love story
The LSO are on ravishing form, perfectly blending the lyricism and intensity of the score, while the whole cast deliver singing of the highest calibre
September 2022
LSO/Rattle review – final season opens with British programme that sparkles
Elgar’s second symphony, sharp and startling and with its slow movement dedicated to a recently departed monarch, was paired with Frank Bridge and new music by Daniel Kidane for a vivid opening concert
June 2022
LSO/Rattle review – transatlantic glitz and lithe elegance
Simon Rattle once again showed his affinity with Haydn before a distinct second half featuring a London premiere of John Adams and extrovert Gershwin works
