For Laurence Equilbey, the members of the Choeur Accentus she founded in 1991 and the players of her Insula Orchestra which followed in 2012 with the support of the Conseil departemental des ...

Laurence Equilbey and her orchestra champion compatriot Louise Farrenc’s orchestral works, revealing energy and verve to rival her 19th-century peers Louise Farrenc was born in 1804, just a few years ...

This striking collaboration between French conductor Laurence Equilbey and British artist Mat Collishaw contemplated mortality with the music of Faure and Gounod, exquisite and austerely performed ...

THERE were magic moments aplenty in the SCO's Mendelssohn double-bill, but these were all too fleeting in A Midsummer Night's Dream. It was an interesting exercise to combine the Overture with the ...

Making her H&H debut, conductor Laurence Equilbey cannily paired Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” with Farrenc’s Symphony No. 3 ‘She’s a French composer from the 19th century, around the time ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Shadowy figures are incubated in an aquarium; later, a nine-metre crane emerges from the darkness. Such images wouldn ...

The conductor pays tribute to Louise Farrenc, a composer whose works deserve a place in symphonic programmes and in the discography I always love to keep an ‘ear’ out for rare and undervalued works.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The odds were against Louise Farrenc ever making her name as a composer of symphonies. This was not just ...

Some will disagree, but Laurence Equilbey thinks actress Cate Blanchett did a pretty good job conducting an orchestra in the film Tár. “I’ve seen it. The first part, the commentary on our business, ...

The conductor Laurence Equilbey, Lili Boulanger 100 years after her death, What Opera Means, a book by Christopher Wintle and archive material featuring Stephen Hawking on music. Tom talks to the ...