classical music & opera
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Conductor says he will step down at end of current season as troubled company is ‘evolving into something I do not recognise’
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Michel van der Aa’s new opera, featuring video, 3D effects and passages of prerecorded music, is compellingly performed by Miah Persson and Roderick Williams
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From the archive, 11 August 1876: The Guardian reports from the very first Bayreuth Wagner festival, presided over by the composer himself.
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Grand-scale Faurée, the intimacy of the Kurtágs, du Pré’s Elgar and Radu Lupu’s Schubert - the cellist on his musical passions
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The Human League co-founder releases his Sea Inside Us All project, an 82-minute recording of familiar sounds of the seaside
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Equity union negotiates guaranteed £35,000 pay deal for chorus after ENO’s Arts Council grant cut
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Schnittke imbues these 16th-century psalms with a piercing intensity
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Prokofiev’s ballet score and great wartime symphony dazzle
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Matthew Martin’s title track gets a dream first recording with Clare College Choir
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The conductor pays tribute to the composer who died earlier this week, and reveals the surprising extent of his influence on the teenage Simon
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From confrontational early works to the community projects that were at the heart of all he did, Maxwell Davies was a great fixed point in British music
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you may have missed
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One of the great British composers and a former Master of the Queen’s Music
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In Boris Godunov – Mussorgsky’s only completed opera – the composer created one of the greatest bass-baritone roles in the canon. We look back at some past productions and the singers who have brought the role to life
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He started playing at two, retired at nine, staged a comeback at 10 – and now has his own perfume and duets with Pharrell. We meet piano superstar Lang Lang
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The Lithuanian woman who succeeds Andris Nelsons in Birmingham wins acclaim for energy and ‘rare talent’
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Tom Service's survey of the 50 symphonies that changed classical music
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Tom Service introduces 50 composers from the contemporary classical music scene
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First person David Hurley on 26 years with the King's Singers: Chicken testicles, Stravinsky on the wall and ushers with laser pens