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Classical music & opera

  • From gentle dreaming to urgent activity … John Storgårds, left, conducts Stefan Dohr in Abrahamsen’s Horn Concerto at Prom 25.

    Proms 2024
    Prom 25: BBC Philharmonic/Storgårds – the best new work of the season?

  • Captivating … The Fairy Queen.

    Proms 2024
    Prom 24: The Fairy Queen – street-dance, hip-hop style suits Purcell surprisingly well

  • Prom 23: Grosvenor plays Busoni’s Piano Concerto. Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances 35’ Interval Busoni Piano Concerto 71’ Benjamin Grosvenor piano Rodolfus Choir London Philharmonic Choir London Philharmonic Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor

    Proms 2024
    Prom 23: Benjamin Grosvenor/LPO/Gardner review – heroically committed extreme pianism

  • vision quartet.

    Proms 2024
    Proms Newport – fresh, direct accounts of Bloch and Dvořák

Live reviews

  • La Pasión Según San Marcos.

    La Pasión Según San Marcos review – Golijov’s riot of rhythm and colour gets Edinburgh off to a thrilling start

  • Lawrence Power performs Cassandra Miller’s concerto I Cannot Love Without Trembling.

    Prom 16: BBC Philharmonic/Storgårds review – Shostakovich’s impact is blunted

  • Prom 14 credit BBC Chris Christodoulou (29)

    Prom 14: BBCSO/Järvi/Yunchan Lim review – star pianist brings subtlety and brilliance to Beethoven

Album reviews

  • Klaus Mäkelä.

    Shostakovich: Symphonies 4, 5 and 6 album review – Klaus Mäkelä takes on history

  • The Past and I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy.

    The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy review – the writer’s poetry gets a sensuous second life in music

  • Jane Stanley, pictured during recording sessions for Cerulean Orbits

    Jane Stanley: Cerulean Orbits album review – music with an ear for texture and economy

  • Beautifully embellished melodies … Aigul Akhmetshina.

    Aigul Akhmetshina: Aigul album review – mezzo from Bashkortostan is an insouciant star

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People

  • Jakub Jozef Orlinski at Warner Music Uk, South Kensington, London, for Q&A New Review, 26/06/2024. Sophia Evans for The Observer

    Q&A
    Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński: ‘Breakdancing feeds into my performances – music dictates the way you move on stage’

  • Roger Wright, CEO of Britten Pears Arts

    ‘I’ve always been a glass half full person’
    Aldeburgh festival’s outgoing CEO Roger Wright

  • Jerrold Northrop Moore began his Elgar researches as a student by interviewing people who had known the composer.

    Obituary
    Jerrold Northrop Moore

  • Actor and writer Paterson Joseph

    ‘I was told I was stupid’
    Peep Show’s Paterson Joseph on his debut novel – and writing three operas

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    Love, laughs and lavish designs: The Merry Widow at Glyndebourne

  • ‘Our first time’ … Gemma New will conduct the world premiere of City of Floating Sounds.

    In the key of 5G
    The ‘dimensionalist’ who wrote a symphony for 1,000 phones

  • Beatrice Harrison, cellist, with microphone

    The spy, the songbird and the sham that wasn’t
    How I restored broadcasting history

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Guides

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    Know the score
    Without Ethel Smyth and classical music's forgotten women, we only tell half the story

    Leah Broad
  • From left: The Tempest, The Minotaur, L’amour de loin, Hamlet

    The best classical music works of the 21st century

  • A guide to contemporary classical music

  • Fireworks light the sky above the Brandenburg Gate shortly after midnight in Berlin, Friday, Jan. 1, 2016. Hundred of thousands of people gathered for the New Year celebrations, welcoming the new year 2016 at the area around the Brandenburg Gate in the capital of Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

    A musical tour of Europe
    Stephen Moss's guide to the music of Europe's great cities: Berlin

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