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Byline: Ivan Hewett The higher they are the harder they fall, and the fall of famed Russian conductor Valery Gergiev has been awesome to behold. A week ago he was [...]

Byline: Ivan Hewett, Chief Classical Music Critic The higher they are the harder they fall, and the fall of famed Russian conductor Valery Gergiev has been awesome to behold. A [...]

Byline: Peter Walker MALE ballet dancers must eat plenty to keep their energy up as ballerinas get taller and harder to lift, the director of one of the world's leading [...]

Byline: John Allison LSO/Valery Gergiev Barbican **** So farewell then, Valery Gergiev. After eight years, the London Symphony Orchestra's principal conductor is slipping out with little fanfare but presumably a [...]

Shchedrin: the Left-Hander Andrei Popov (Left-Hander), Edward Tsanga (Platov), Vladimir Moroz (Alexander I/Nicholas I), Kristina Alieva (Flea), Maria Maksakova (Princess Charlotte), Mariinsky Orchestra & Chorus, cond Valery Gergiev MARIINSKY, 2 [...]

WHEN last Sunday's Prom is broadcast on television next month, there won't be any yawning gaps in the audience - even though the Royal Albert Hall event was far from [...]

Byline: John Allison MUSIC IN COLOUR, LSO/GERGIEV| *** | Barbican Potentially one of the most interesting and significant of all Valery Gergiev's projects with the London Symphony Orchestra, his Music [...]

Byline: Adam Sweeting According to conductor Valery Gergiev, 'Mahler wanted to have the sound of children's voices in the Eighth Symphony because through this symphony he embraced almost all processes [...]

Byline: Items by Paul Clements, Christopher Hope, Paul Kendall, Gillian Reynolds When last Sunday's Prom is broadcast on television next month, there won't be any yawning gaps in the audience [...]

Byline: John Allison Potentially one of the most interesting and significant of all Valery Gergiev's projects with the London Symphony Orchestra, his Music in Colour series promises something rarely heard [...]

Byline: Ivan Hewett The power of music to do good beyond the purely musical is invoked more and more these days. Back in the days of the Band Aid campaign [...]

A beautiful dark young woman of lissome build is dancing in the studio at the Kirov in St Petersburg, practising over and over passages of Giselle. Although Diana Vishneva is [...]

LSO/Valery Gergiev Barbican Hall, London EC2 0845 120 7555. Time will tell whether Valery Gergiev's appointment as Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra really is 'the match made in [...]

There can be a stream-of-consciousness element to a conversation with Valery Gergiev. Broach one subject, and it is liable to spark thoughts on another, maybe related, but germane only in [...]

Byline: Rupert Christiansen Uninformed speculation and downright gossip surrounds the mysterious figure of Valery Gergiev . Given the reach of his portfolio - as supremo of the Mariinsky Opera and [...]

Byline: Patrick Smith Valery Gergiev, the Russian conductor facing a gay rights protest at his London concert this evening, has issued a statement on his Facebook saying that he has [...]

Byline: John Allison Back when the London Symphony Orchestra made a Faustian pact with its principal conductor Valery Gergiev, gambling that his uneven brilliance would compensate for a famously hasty [...]

Byline: Teresa Levonian Cole The concentration of plain-clothed policemen as we approached Theatre Square in St Petersburg was an indication that something was afoot. On the roof, an army sniper [...]

Byline: Louise Levene An internet petition called for its immediate demolition, critics likened its shiny glass bulk to 'a shopping mall' but Mariinsky 2, second home to St.Petersburg's legendary opera [...]

Weekend Proms 46 Boris Godunov 47 Gubaidulina 48 Kirov/Gergiev ALBERT HALL & RADIO 3 THE weekend belonged to St Petersburg's Kirov Opera. In the first of its three concerts, the [...]

Byline: Ivan Hewett Igor Stravinsky: a giant figure of modern music, perhaps the greatest. But also a great shape-shifter, the man who could sound like a ragtime composer in one [...]

Byline: Hugo Shirley AT THE heart of a gruelling week-long UK tour, Valery Gergiev and his Mariinsky Opera presented Barbican audiences with a fascinating juxtaposition: Parsifal, Wagner's final opera and [...]