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Roussel: The Spider's Banquet; Suites from Padmâvatî – review

5419 days ago
Guardian Music — Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Denève(Naxos)Having already recorded the four symphonies and the ballet Bacchus et Ariane, Stéphane Denève and the RSNO end their survey of Roussel's orchestral music with what is perhaps his most regularly perfor... more info

Alexis Weissenberg

5419 days ago
Guardian Music — Formidable pianist who brought a bracing physicality to an impressive range of worksThe Bulgarian-born pianist Alexis Weissenberg, who has died aged 82 after suffering from Parkinson's disease, was a celebrated if controversial figure. The blockbuste... more info

Saint-Saëns: Music for the Prix de Rome – review

5426 days ago
Guardian Music — De Liso/Richter/Pruvot/Flemish Radio Choir/Brussels Philharmonic/Niquet(Glossa, 2 CDs)The history of 19th- and early 20th-century French music is bound up with that of the Prix de Rome, a career-defining composition competition organised by the AcadÃ... more info

Tuned In: 'Saint Sebastien' rises again on Davies Hall stage

5427 days ago
Mercury News, California — Next week, Michael Tilson Thomas dials the wayback machine on his long tenure with the San Francisco Symphony and returns to the highly unusual, overtly theatrical work by Claude Debussy that the conductor introduced to the Bay Area in its full form ... more info

Bridging music and sport for the Cultural Olympiad

5440 days ago
Guardian Music — How are ping-pong and violin-playing similar? If the tension at the starting line was a tune, what would it sound like? Tom Service talks to the musicians trying to bridge sport and art for 2012's Cultural OlympiadMusic and sport go together like …... more info

Bernarda Fink – review

5447 days ago
Guardian Music — Wigmore Hall, LondonThough the group of composers highlighted in this Wigmore series (Ravel and his contemporaries Massenet, Saint-Saëns, Fauré and Debussy) had their share of personal tensions, this initial programme – consisting of works compo... more info

Philharmonia/Ashkenazy/Bavouzet – review

5449 days ago
Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonOnce very familiar, Manuel de Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain has been sidelined of late. Hearing it performed by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet at a Philharmonia matinee conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy, many were probably lef... more info

Ravel: Introduction and Allegro; Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp; Dutilleux: Les Citations, etc – review

5461 days ago
Guardian Music — Boston Symphony Chamber Players (BSO Classics)(BSO Classics)The Boston Symphony Orchestra's special connections with the French orchestral repertoire go back generations, to its work with conductors like Charles Munch and Pierre Monteux, and the cham... more info

The musical legacy of Ken Russell: composers' marble busts made flesh and blood

5464 days ago
Guardian Music — John Bridcut on Ken Russell, a film-maker who 'resisted the facts getting in the way of his visual imagination'The wild visual imagination of Ken Russell brought classical music to a whole new audience, and made his name notorious in respectable musi... more info

Philharmonia/Salonen – review

5499 days ago
Guardian Music — Symphony Hall, BirminghamThe end is in sight for Infernal Dance, Esa-Pekka Salonen's odyssey through Bartók's music with the Philharmonia. The final concerts are dominated by Bartók's only opera, Bluebeard's Castle, being toured in a semi-staging d... more info

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