Bruckner: Nine Symphonies review – Concertgebouw’s early gift is a conducting masterclass
In advance of Bruckner’s bicentenary, a roll call of tremendous historic interpretations is a timely reminder of this orchestra’s superb playing
July 2020
House music
House music: Tim Ashley's watching and listening highlights
This week, our critic cues up Opera North’s podcast, takes in Ryedale’s streaming festival and revisits an archived Proms performance with Riccardo Chailly
January 2019
Messa per Rossini CD review – Chailly gives this historical curiosity drama and authority
Riccardo Chailly and Teatro alla Scala resurrect a stirring, though uneven tribute by Verdi and his contemporaries
July 2018
Classical album of the week: Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream/Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony review
Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra adroitly bring together their past and future in deft and persuasive style
September 2017
Festivals 2017
Lucerne festival 2017 review – Chailly, Gardiner, Monteverdi et al
Lucerne has identity on its mind, and delights including Riccardo Chailly and his La Scala band and John Eliot Gardiner’s Monteverdi tour
August 2017
Filarmonica della Scala/Chailly review – a spine-tingling Proms debut
A breathtaking Brahms with soloist Leonidas Kavakos was followed by a lush evocation of Respighi’s Rome, affirming the virtuosity of Riccardo Chailly’s Milan ensemble
June 2017
Mahler: Symphony No 8 DVD review – Chailly pays impressive tribute to Abbado
Summer arts preview 2017
The top classical, world, folk and jazz of summer 2017
June 2016
Colin Matthews: Violin Concerto CD review – rapt meditation for composer's 70th birthday
December 2015
Giovanna d’Arco review – a first night to remember at La Scala
Riot police, the Italian PM and Patti Smith were all there as local boy Riccardo Chailly took charge at La Scala, Milan for a triumphant Giovanna d’Arco
October 2015
Leipzig Gewandhaus/Chailly/Fröst review – Strauss with bright exactitude
Riccardo Chailly brought a pressing, unsentimental approach to Richard Strauss, while Martin Fröst played Mozart’s clarinet concerto with irresistible character
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Chailly review - vivid Strauss and understated Mozart
Riccardo Chailly’s precision and energy made for a magnificent performance of two of Strauss’s tone poems; but Maria João Pires’s Mozart sometimes felt detached
Riccardo Chailly: ‘I want to do things differently, to put life on hold’
Conductor Riccardo Chailly is at the height of his powers, so why is he determined to slow down? He tells Fiona Maddocks about leaving Leipzig’s Gewandhaus and his return to La Scala, Milan
September 2015
Autumn arts preview 2015
Classical and opera highlights: the must-sees of autumn 2015
Tom Service on classical music
The latest from the maestros' merry-go-round
November 2013
Wozzeck; Frank Zappa's 200 Motels; Leipzig Gewandhaus/Chailly – review
Berg's great opera confounds and dazzles. And Frank Zappa's 200 Motels finally rocks, says Fiona Maddocks
