Here are the highlights of the month in classical music, with details of where you can listen at home. Read our guide to Britain’s ten greatest orchestras and the best classical concerts to book now ...

In a world preoccupied by communication skills, Bernard Haitink must be considered deeply unsexy. He is old, grey and a hopeless speaker. Luckily, classical music is about more than that. It makes ...

Klaus Mäkelä, a 26-year-old Finnish conductor, will become chief conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam for the 2027-28 season as part of a 10-year commitment announced Friday. He ...

Fewer have the unbeatable combination of superlative music-making and an acoustically fine auditorium, where orchestra and hall are in such artistic sympathy as to be heard almost as a single ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If the Eurostar starts direct services from London to Amsterdam, we might see even more of the Royal ...

When Klaus Mäkelä climbed the Concertgebouw podium and turned to the audience at the orchestra’s third Gustav Mahler Festival in 105 years, the conductor could see the writing on the wall. Facing him ...

In Bruckner’s majestic, yet often intimidating, Ninth Symphony, unfinished on the composer’s death in 1896 and presented here without any of the fabricated finales that later hands have slapped on it, ...

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is regularly called one of the very best — sometimes the best — in the world. Its international tours tend to be akin to victory laps: a collaborative ensemble ...