The Royal Concertgebouw of Amsterdam came to town full of haunting stories and vivid pictures. Three of the four pieces the famed Dutch orchestra programmed for its two-night Great Performers Series ...

TC Here are two hard tasks for a guest conductor. Perform music much associated with an orchestra’s current and previous music directors and produce something his own. Turn that piece, even if as ...

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Mariss Jansons are live at the BBC Proms from the Royal Albert Hall, London, to perform Beethoven's fourth Piano concerto with pianist Mitsuko ...

Mariss Jansons has had the reputation for turning round under-performing orchestras in Oslo and Pittsburgh. But now he has his reward in winning the chief conductorships of not one but two of Europe's ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The best came last. The conductor Mariss Jansons always loves an encore and he chose a real corker for the first of ...