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Classical music

  • vision quartet.

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

  • Prom 21 John Wilson Sinfonia of London (15)

    Prom 21: John Wilson/Sinfonia of London review – sharp-tailored fanfare leads a million-dollar parade of US music

  • 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

    Osvaldo Golijov’s remarkable take on Bach’s St Matthew Passion exhilarates with its singular mix of textures, styles and movement, brought together into a triumphant mass by conductor Joana Carneiro
  • Judith Rattenbury

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    Judith Rattenbury obituary

    Other lives: Pioneering computer programmer, passionate chamber musician, and activist for climate change
  • A black and white image of Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky was not tragic but had a ‘Monty Python’ sense of humour, says biographer

    A new book claims that the Russian composer is not the tormented genius he is portrayed as, but a fun-loving man with ‘a fabulous life’
  • The Past and I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy.

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

  • The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra and Songs for Ukraine Chorus at St Paul's Cathedral

    The week in classical: Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra; Three Choirs festival; Prom 16 – review

  • Knaifel (right) with Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich; the cello played a significant part in Knaifel’s output.

    Alexander Knaifel obituary

    Russian composer whose sparse musical landscapes create a spiritual ambience of meditative calm
  • Jane Stanley, pictured during recording sessions for Cerulean Orbits

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

    The Glasgow-based Australian composer chamber works are played by the Red Note Ensemble with spark and energy
  • Beautifully embellished melodies … Aigul Akhmetshina.

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

    Her debut solo recording perfectly showcases the glowing expansiveness, swagger and breathtaking poise of Akhmetshina’s arresting voice
  • Lawrence Power performs Cassandra Miller’s concerto I Cannot Love Without Trembling.

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

    Lawrence Power was the spellbinding soloist in Cassandra Miller’s intimate viola concerto, and the BBC Philharmonic played superbly in a somewhat muted reading of Shostakovich’s fourth
  • Prom 15: The Swingles/BBCPhil/Collon review – a bicycle wheel, birds and beatboxing

  • Cloud Messenger, Three choirs festival premieres, Worcester

    Three Choirs Festival review – 300-year-old festival celebrates the past and looks to the future

  • Benjamin Grosvenor, press photo, credit Andrej Grilc

    ‘Few are mad enough to take it on’ – Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor on Busoni’s Piano Concerto

    There’s an invisible choir, text from a Danish play about Aladdin, and it’s inspired by classical architecture, nature and quasi-Egyptian iconography – no wonder Busoni’s Piano Concerto is rarely performed. Now the colossus is coming to the Proms
  • Prom 14 credit BBC Chris Christodoulou (29)

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

    The BBC Symphony Orchestra struggled at times to match the exuberance of the young Korean, making his proms debut with the Emperor Piano concerto
  • Bucket-list gig … Jordan Rakei and the Royal Northern Sinfonia at The Glasshouse.

    Proms at the Glasshouse review – Rakei proves ripe for orchestration

    The weekend’s mini Proms festival in Gateshead ranged widely from Star Wars to Sibelius, with the electro soul of Jordan Rakei an undoubted highlight
  • The Maestros in Fusion ensemble.

    Maestros in Fusion review – virtuosic Indian ensemble knit two traditions together

    Six supremely talented jazz and classical instrumentalists, whose humility belies their mastery, all show how malleable and moving their music can be
  • Richard Macnutt was a founding member of the editorial board of the New Berlioz Edition, which sought to catalogue the composer’s entire works, a project finally completed in 2005

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    Richard Macnutt obituary

    Other lives: Antiquarian music dealer and an expert on the composer Hector Berlioz
  • Keri-Lynn Wilson

    When Putin invaded my country, I couldn’t take up arms – I raised my conductor’s baton instead

    Keri-Lynn Wilson
    We created a new kind of orchestra to fight for Ukraine all over the world, says Keri-Lynn Wilson, founder of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra
  • Nigel Kennedy

    Nigel Kennedy: why I’m going on stage to play jazz with my ‘young cats’

    Best-selling violinist who learned from Yehudi Menuhin and Stéphane Grappelli, reveals he has been mentoring budding musicians ahead of London residency
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