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    News

    Proposal for a new Centre for Music in London moves forward

    17 December 2015

    The Centre, originally suggested by incoming London Symphony Orchestra music director Sir Simon Rattle, would have 'a transformative effect on public engagement with music'

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    Article

    Leonidas Kavakos performs Sibelius Violin Concerto

    16 December 2015

    Leonidas Kavakos performs the third movement of Sibelius's Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in February 2015. Kavakos talks about his ever-deepening relationship with the Sibelius Concerto in The Strad's January 2016 issue - out Friday. Read: Leonidas Kavakos on modern violin ...

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    Debate

    Is there a 'right' way to play Sibelius?

    21 April 2015

    Sibelius should be performed in a bleak style representative of his native sound world, not with the luscious richness and colour of the Berlin Philharmonic, argues Andrew Mellor

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    Gallery

    Simon Rattle conducts the first Young Orchestra for London

    16 February 2015

    As part of the Berlin Philharmonic’s week-long London residency in February 2015, the Barbican and Southbank Centres joined forces with the London Symphony Orchestra to launch a new mixed-ability Young Orchestra for London.The ensemble comprised 100 students aged between 11 and 21, of Grade 3 standard and above, ...