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Classical music

July 2024

  • Efficient and characterful … Rose Wollman and Dror Baitel.

    Breaking Glass Ceilings: Music by Unruly Women album review – a celebration of defiant female composers

  • Elim Chan conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra baton-free.

    First Night of the Proms review – a thrilling adventure ride

  • Jan Lisiecki performing at London's Wigmore Hall.

    Jan Lisiecki review – titanic moments in one man’s fight to free the prelude

  • ‘The cacophony of existential questions’ … Beyza Yazgan.

    Contemporary album of the month
    Beyza Yazgan: Human Cocoon review – from Middle Eastern classical to American minimalism

  • Lang: Composition as Explanation album review – Gertrude Stein set to music

  • Il Segreto di Susanna/Pagliacci review – a double whammy of sexual jealousy

  • Is this 20-year-old the greatest pianist of our times? Yunchan Lim, the Korean about to electrify the Proms

  • ‘We’re in for a treat’: five Proms performers pick their highlights of the season

  • Sonata for Broken Fingers review – chamber opera of Stalin’s terror fails to grip

  • The week in classical: Double Bryn Terfel; Siwan Rhys; Bozzini Quartet; My Beloved Man – review

  • Beethoven: Complete String Quartets album review – up there with the best

  • Brahms: The Symphonies album review – less is more for Nézet-Séguin and the COE

  • Other lives
    Dominic Gwynn obituary

  • Hebrides Ensemble/Lamprea review – Schoenberg’s Pierrot is pushed to extremes

  • Hip-hop band Cypress Hill makes 1996 Simpsons joke come true

  • New Year review – Blake’s 7, redemption and rap as Birmingham Opera Company turn to Tippett

  • Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno review – imaginative staging transforms Handel’s oratorio

  • London Sinfonietta/Paterson review – bespoke instruments and microtones in all-Mexican programme

  • Three things
    Three things with ABC Classic’s Megan Burslem: ‘My earplugs are handy for gigs and when a dad sneezes’

  • Ernani review – sterling singing triumphs over Verdi’s implausible plot

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