Jukka-Pekka Saraste took over from André Previn as music director of the Oslo Philharmonic three years ago. His latest London concert with the orchestra also found him, ironically perhaps, teamed up ...

Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year Award is the only Gramophone Classical Music Award decided by public vote (vote here). The 10 orchestras nominated this year are: Bayerisches Staatsorchester ...

Vasily Petrenko (*1976) – not related to his more elusive, slightly older, somewhat more famous Austro-Russian conductor-colleague Kirill Petrenko – has renewed his contract as Chief Conductor of the ...

The board of the Oslo Philharmonic has announced the engagement of Finnish conductor and cellist Klaus Mäkelä as Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the orchestra from August 2020. Mäkelä ...

For any city the building of a new concert venue is an investment for the future But leaving aside the performance itself, perhaps it was Petrenko's talent for bridging the gap between podium and ...

An ecstatic if hardly packed Barbican audience obviously agreed. Acoustic differences on a tour are always going to pose problems, and this hall's tendency to raise every dynamic at least one notch ...

A long distance from her prize-winning youngster days, violinist Nicola Benedetti now has a wonderfully multifaceted career as a respected chamber musician, a high profile advocate of music education ...

Good news for the Oslo Philharmonic, but how will it be received in Liverpool now that they'll be sharing their beloved conductor with another city? The Norwegian orchestra has built an enviable ...

Petrenko conducted a dauntless account of Sibelius’s First Symphony, but iffy programming wasted this concert’s second half The stony expression on Vasily Petrenko’s face spoke volumes. He had just ...

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1 Interview: 'Adele Had Never Written a Song Before She Came To Us': Principal Stuart Worden On The BRIT School An exciting new age beckons for the Oslo Philharmonic with the appointment of Vasily ...