Aside from elves on shelves, Rudolph, Santa’s unhealthy diet and other 20 th century customs, Christmas has long had folklore and traditions associated with it that, while not found in the biblical ...

There’s nothing like an invigorating blast of trumpets and glory to start the final countdown to Christmas, and, performing true to form on Friday evening, the early-music ensemble Vox Luminis, under ...

The Gesualdo Six’s Advent calendar this year consists of five dates in Clervaux, Helsinki, London, Cambridge and Stroud; Wednesday evening saw them at Smith Square for the second of these. While many ...

BBC forces serve helpings of Bliss, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, Wallen and Vaughan Williams for 2025’s First Night of the Proms. “Batiashvili’s response to all this subtle shading was to double down on it, ...

London Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Community Voices are joined by Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir for a powerful evening of Spirituals and Gospel. A big celebration of Gospel music has become an annual ...

Normally when a concert is described as an evening of two halves, it implies that one was stronger than the other. In the case of The Last Night of the Proms 2025, it merely references the fact that ...

Keats’ ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ is upon us, heralded, as it is every year, by the end of the BBC Proms, Britain’s most enduring summer musical festival (it began in 1895, and has been ...