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Classical music & opera

  • Wonderfully precise attention to detail … Rinaldo Alessandrini.

    Album review
    Monteverdi: I Tutti Madrigali – Alessandrini has achieved something truly outstanding

  • Drive and conviction … conductor Sakari Oramo.

    Album review
    Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 & 4 – Oramo is a passionate advocate

    Sakari Oramo and the BBCSO revel in the expert orchestrations of Grażyna Bacewicz’s music in this first instalment of recordings of the Polish composer’s orchestral works
  • Errollyn Wallen, composer, at work, writing music Commissioned for Portrait of the Artist Photograph by Martin Godwin.

    From mini Mars bars to matters of life or death
    Errollyn Wallen on becoming a composer

    In an exclusive extract from her new book the musician recalls the shift from concertgoer to concert-giver – and how it involved chocolate, and explains why opera composers lie, cheat, steal, murder and live to tell the tale
  • Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn

    ‘Music for you must only be an ornament’
    How Fanny Mendelssohn’s voice was stifled, then saved

  • Tom Hulce in Amadeus.

    How we made
    ‘John McEnroe was my reference point’: how we made Amadeus

  • Carla Bley concert with the Very Big Carla Bley Band on the occasion of the 15th Jazz Festival at the Hamburger Fabrik. 21.10.1990 - Christoph Kelle<br>2FN4G2A Carla Bley concert with the Very Big Carla Bley Band on the occasion of the 15th Jazz Festival at the Hamburger Fabrik. 21.10.1990 - Christoph Kelle

    Obituary
    Carla Bley

  • The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine rehearsing in the Kyiv Philharmonic Hall

    ‘The tuba player is now a machine gunner’
    Classical music on the Ukrainian frontline

Live reviews

  • Soprano Emily Tring with Martyn Brabbins and the BBCNOW.

    BBCNOW/Brabbins/Godden review – melancholy, defiance and energy from new and old female voices

  • Classical Pianist Piotr Anderszewski performsat the Barbican, London. 2/11/23

    Piotr Anderszewski review – raw and astonishing, Beethoven is transformed

  • Team performance … Petrenko and Lugansky with the RPO at Royal Festival Hall.

    RPO/Lugansky/Petrenko review – orchestra claps packed audience as transformation continues

  • The London Philharmonic Orchestra perform at the Royal Festival Hall<br>Karina Canellakis The London Philharmonic Orchestra perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3 with soloist Stephen Hough and Shostakovich Symphony No.10, conducted by Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis. Royal Festival Hall, Wednesday 1 December 2021. The concert was also dedicated to the memory of Bernard Haitink, LPO Principal Conductor 1967–79 who died in October 2021. Photo by Mark Allan

    LPO/Canellakis review – poetic Beethoven and a clear, if careful, take on Shostakovich’s wartorn masterpiece

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Album reviews

  • Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.

    Classical home listening: Chineke!’s Nutcracker Suite; Angela Hewitt’s Mozart Sonatas

  • Kristian Bezuidenhout at the keyboard

    Mozart: Piano Concs K238 and 503 album review – cool precision from Kristian Bezuidenhout on a period fortepiano

  • Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider with the Lyon orchestra.

    Aux Étoiles: French Symphonic Poems album review – well worth exploring

  • BSO Music DirectorAndris Nelsons

    Shostakovich: Symphonies 2, 3, 12 and 13 album review – Nelsons ends his cycle as convincingly as it began

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People

  • Christian Thielemann

    News
    Christian Thielemann picks up baton as director of Berlin State Opera from old rival

  • Dreamlike logic … Benjamin studying a score he is due to conduct.

    Interview
    ‘I threw my pop records in the bin’: George Benjamin on his defining moments – and his latest opera

  • Intensity with a glint of mischief … György Kurtág in 2016.

    ‘I compose to seek the truth’
    György Kurtág on depression, totalitarianism and his 73-year marriage

  • Carl Davis London By David Levene 31/8/11

    Obituary
    Carl Davis

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  • Vikingur Olafsson

    ‘An encyclopedia of how to think and dream on the piano’
    Víkingur Ólafsson on Bach’s Goldberg Variations

  • The Sage Gateshead will become the Glasshouse International Centre for Music

    News
    Sage Gateshead music hall to be renamed the Glasshouse

  • ‘We shared a love of football and cake’ … Elvis Costello, second from right, with the Brodsky Quartet in 1993.

    Elvis Costello on writing The Juliet Letters: ‘It initially caused panic’

  • Composers composite - clockwise from top left: John Williams, Hildegard of Bingen, Ethel Smyth, Beethoven, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Clara Schumann, Ned Rorem and Carla Bley

    ‘The human stories behind the music we love’
    Radio 3’s Composer of the Week turns 80

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Guides

  • 1216 Portrait of Ethel Smyth<br>PBBHMT 1216 Portrait of Ethel Smyth

    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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