Posted Jul 16 2009

With 76 concerts in the Royal Albert Hall and 19 at the Cadogan Hall, where do you begin? At the first night of the Proms at the RAH, of...

Posted Jul 8 2009

The BBC Proms have their own unique atmosphere and culture, honed over 115 years of Promming. Here's how to fit in like a seasoned pro...

Posted Jul 16 2008

Hyde Park hosts the Last Night of the Proms‘ hardier younger sister for the tenth year running on Saturday September 9

Posted Oct 30 2009

It takes Michael Nyman about two minutes to make his way down from the composing eyrie at the top of his impressive Islington townhouse....

Posted Jul 30 2009

Living in a posh bit of Paris, with his BBC Proms commission 'From Trumpet' about to be performed, composer Ben Foskett could be...

Posted Jul 16 2008

The world's biggest music festival on BBC2

Posted Jul 21 2006

’Dynamic‘ is the inevitable cliché. Gianandrea Noseda was relatively unknown here when he was appointed principal conductor of the...

Posted Jul 18 2007

The biggest musical festival in the world celebrates 80 years of BBC involvement with 90 concerts

Posted Oct 30 2009

Thomas Arne's name is familiar to most for his Last Night of the Proms favourite 'Rule, Britannia!', which is a ditty lifted from the...

Posted Nov 3 2009

Despite being seemingly unpronounceable, Yannick Nézet-Séguin's name is on the lips of most of the world's great orchestras. The...

Posted Nov 19 2009

By the time of his death in 1998, Alfred Schnittke had become regarded as one of the major composers of the late twentieth century. The...

Posted Jul 16 2009

It takes a rather special conductor to drag Time Out’s classical editor Jonathan Lennie away from his wife on their wedding night....

Last Night of the Proms soloist and Classical Brit Award-winner, the trumpeter Alison Balsom has gathered together an...