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The British composer lacked delicacy, even when conducting his own pieces, but Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto excelled
The composer-conductor and orchestra reach the midpoint of their Beethoven cycle
A Prom that featured the world premiere of a piece that delights in the ugliest of sound-worlds
Thomas Adès launches his Beethoven cycle with an intriguing juxtaposition
Gerald Barry’s opera is a wild, funny distillation of Lewis Carroll’s stories
The anarchy never palls in the Royal Opera’s production of Gerald Barry’s opera
Gerald Barry’s operatic reworking of Wilde features megaphones, plate-smashing and lots of German
Piano master class by Thomas Adès serves as prelude to a programme of contemporary music by Edwin Roxburgh, Gerald Barry and others
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