Whether he was conducting, composing or communicating, Bernstein was a stylish innovator

Performances "vast in musical scope and phantasmagorical imagination"

The best concerts to book now for December 2017

Upcoming performances by pianist Lucy Parham, composer Sally Beamish and poet David Harsent are also worth marking in your diary

The cutting-edge classical music in August

Mark these dates in your diaries

Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder is one of the repertoire’s greatest epics—a cantata of Wagnerian scope and ambition

There’s no shortage of performances marking Monteverdi’s 450th anniversary

The works worth hearing

Celebrate International Women’s Day with a concert by four female composers