classical
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A film detailing an Australian music professor’s theory that Bach’s second wife Anna Magdalena composed one of his most famous works is causing a classical stir. Renowned cellist Steven Isserlis debunks the claim
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From fiery passages to moments of sublime quietness, the Russian pianist displayed the full range of his mercurial talent, writes Erica Jeal
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Review Finzi: Requiem da Camera, Vaughan Williams: An Oxford Elegy, etc CD review – hymns to the fallen
4 / 5 starsGerald Finzi’s previously unrecorded Requiem da Camera is the highlight of this collection of first world war-themed compositions, writes Andrew Clements
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Conductor Donald Runnicles’ take on Berg’s complex opera was compelling, beautiful and powerfully claustrophobic, writes Kate Molleson
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Greg Eldridge and his fellow Jette Parker Young Artists are putting on Rossini’s farce La scala di seta at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio. With only four weeks to create a new production, he kept a rehearsal diary of the frantic pace
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Halloween-appropriate programming of the Ghost sonata was the centrepiece of a beguiling set of Beethoven piano trio chamber music, writes Martin Kettle
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An intimate recording from the Academy of Ancient Music brings out the detail in Bach’s rhythms, writes Stephen Pritchard
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Various venues, Brecon
Rachel Podger’s ensemble were well attuned to the cumulative powers of JS Bach, while Mahan Esfahani brought humanity on and off the stage, writes Rian Evans -
Daniel Harding’s death-defying approach held Mahler’s morbidity at bay, writes Martin Kettle
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On its 10th anniversary, the sound festival commemorated the first world war with three new works alongside an arresting, coolly delivered violin concerto, writes Kate Molleson
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Nico Muhly’s Second Service was touching, and Vaughan Williams’s Serenade emerged unscathed, but the Strauss and Elgar were swallowed up by the cathedral’s echoing sound, writes Tim Ashley
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From early to epic, Rossini’s irrepressible operas are currently everywhere, writes Fiona Maddocks
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Stuart Skelton is up there with Philip Langridge in this exemplary recording, writes Fiona Maddocks
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Review Mozart, Schubert, Stravinsky: Piano Duos CD review – dizzy heights from two of the world’s greatest
5 / 5 starsMartha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim in a joint rectial? Yes, it’s pretty good, writes Nicholas Kenyon -
Oswald and Napoleão shared much in common but their music here is very different, writes Stephen Pritchard
reviews
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Various venues, Brecon
Rachel Podger’s ensemble were well attuned to the cumulative powers of JS Bach, while Mahan Esfahani brought humanity on and off the stage, writes Rian Evans -
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Daniel Harding’s death-defying approach held Mahler’s morbidity at bay, writes Martin Kettle
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Classical music Red Note/Orchestre d’Auvergne review – haunting and hard-hitting new sounds
4 / 5 starsOn its 10th anniversary, the sound festival commemorated the first world war with three new works alongside an arresting, coolly delivered violin concerto, writes Kate Molleson -
Nico Muhly’s Second Service was touching, and Vaughan Williams’s Serenade emerged unscathed, but the Strauss and Elgar were swallowed up by the cathedral’s echoing sound, writes Tim Ashley
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From fiery passages to moments of sublime quietness, the Russian pianist displayed the full range of his mercurial talent, writes Erica Jeal
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Halloween-appropriate programming of the Ghost sonata was the centrepiece of a beguiling set of Beethoven piano trio chamber music, writes Martin Kettle
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From early to epic, Rossini’s irrepressible operas are currently everywhere, writes Fiona Maddocks
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Conductor Donald Runnicles’ take on Berg’s complex opera was compelling, beautiful and powerfully claustrophobic, writes Kate Molleson
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As always with Haitink, the orchestral textures were scrupulously balanced, writes Martin Kettle
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Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment OAE/Roth review – rare airing of a George Onslow curio
4 / 5 starsConductor François-Xavier Roth kept up his reputation for quirky programming with a fascinating but flawed symphony by the ‘French Beethoven’, writes Tim Ashley -
Classical music Simon Keenlyside/Emanuel Ax review – a poignant and powerful Winterreise
4 / 5 starsThe baritone drew on his actorly skills for Schubert’s song cycle, sensitively supported by Ax’s beautifully judged accompaniment, writes Martin Kettle -
Jonathan Kent’s production of Britten’s ghost story is revived to haunting effect, with standout central performances from the children, writes Tim Ashley
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Pappano brought nobility to a celebration of Panufnik and brilliantly evoked Strauss’s pride, anger and beauty, writes Tim Ashley
news
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Vanessa Thorpe: Supermodel’s family revive operetta based on 17th-century story of American Indian slave
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Alan Davey says station will not become more like Classic FM to address shrinking audience and will still offer ‘complex culture’
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Demonstrators to gather outside opera house to protest against John Adams opera about the murder of a Jewish holidaymaker by PLO
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Protesters accuse The Death of Klinghoffer, dramatises Jewish man’s killing by Palestinian guerrillas, of antisemitism
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Media Monkey: Culture minister says he prefers the ‘absolutely brilliant’ Classic FM to its BBC rival because it is ‘accessible and informal’
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Decision by West Australia Opera has left fans fuming, while PM Tony Abbott calls it ‘political correctness gone crazy’
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Radiohead star Jonny Greenwood teams up with online channel to bring orchestral sounds to a new audience
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Management says outsourced musicians and singers will save millions of euros as economic crisis chokes state funding of arts
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Love ‘wanted to do something challenging’, so she has taken a role in a production at a ‘visionary opera-theatre’ festival
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Arts Council chief executive, appointed after a six-month recruitment process, to succeed Roger Wright next year. By John Plunkett
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Innovative company that stretched boundaries of small-scale opera will build on links with Soho theatre and Coventry Belgrade, writes Imogen Tilden
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One of the most influential exponents of the early music movement, Hogwood founded the Academy of Ancient Music
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Violinist will return to perform in capital city’s metro after 2007 experiment failed to win subway audience’s attention
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Italians dismayed as star conductor pulls out of two productions at company hit by strike threats and protests
talking points
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The director of the controversial opera, which opened on Monday to protests at the Met in New York, will be online at 1pm ET on Friday. Please post your questions now
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Climbing over the top of a lavish superfluity of song nominations from last week’s topic, RR regular bluepeter picks his favourite examples of overkill
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At last night’s Wigmore Hall concert, quartet-lab created a framework within which anything was possible, permissible, and comprehensible.
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We present an occasional and light-hearted series: a selection of 10 entirely subjectively chosen clips, this week representing our pick of classical music’s best parodies, comedies, and sketches
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A film detailing an Australian music professor’s theory that Bach’s second wife Anna Magdalena composed one of his most famous works is causing a classical stir. Renowned cellist Steven Isserlis debunks the claim
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New musical work celebrates Nat Nakasa, a journalist who was exiled from South Africa and whose life ended suddenly in Harlem
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Haydn wrote 15 operas. Thanks to English Touring Opera, there’s a rare opportunity to see one of them this autumn.
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In music, performance or lyrics, it’s time to cross the line and truly define what is flamboyant, superfluous and OTT, says Peter Kimpton -
From a confident Otis Redding to a straightforward AC/DC, RR regular Suzi swoons at this shortlist of songs to get you in the mood
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Sometimes this column just features odd music. Sometimes – and this is one of those occasions – the music is also quite brilliant
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There’s only four weeks to save Northern Ireland’s only full-time professional orchestra
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Well, not literally. Donate them to schools and help the Don’t Stop the Music campaign
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