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Julietta – opera review

5169 days ago
Guardian Music — Coliseum, LondonWhat is generally regarded as Martinů's finest opera had to wait 40 years for its British premiere, until the New Opera Company staged it at the Coliseum in 1978. There was another production at Opera North in 1997, and now Julietta ... more info

BBC presenters in key for Piano Season

5182 days ago
Guardian Music — Nicky Campbell joins Lang Lang in celebration of instrument that coincides with Leeds International Piano CompetitionThe presenters Nicky Campbell, Jane Garvey and Shaun Keaveny are among those to be transformed from complete novices to concert music... more info

Prom 65: Britten Sinfonia/Taylor/Barker – review

5185 days ago
Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonWhen Martin Taylor and Guy Barker talk about their Spirit of Django Suite they like to point out that the music should "reek of nostalgia". On the Proms premiere of this Django Reinhardt-dedicated guitar concerto – performe... more info

London Philharmonic opens the Pandora's box of impressionism

5187 days ago
Guardian Music — The LPO's concert on Saturday, which we're streaming live, promises to return to one of music's perennial questions: how does music represent the world?The London Philharmonic's concert on Saturday, which we're streaming here live, raises, realises, ... more info

Prom 63: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle – review

5187 days ago
Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonIf the Berlin Phil has anything as prosaic as a comfort zone, the bulk of this programme wasn't it. Of the five composers in the first of their two Proms, only Wagner was an obvious fit for their trademark sound, as velvety a... more info

Debussy: Preludes Books 1 & 2 – review

5188 days ago
Guardian Music — Pierre-Laurent Aimard(Deutsche Grammophon)Pierre-Laurent Aimard's much-publicised recent claim in an interview with a German newspaper that Debussy is a greater composer than Wagner is by no means original – it was also made in an influential study... more info

Suk: A Summer's Tale; Prague – review

5188 days ago
Guardian Music — BBCSO/Belohlávek(Chandos)A Summer's Tale is one of three symphonic poems that Josef Suk composed in the wake of his great Asrael Symphony, which he had completed in 1906 as a memorial to his wife and to his father-in-law Dvor˘ák. Jirí Be˘lohláv... more info

Introduction to Royal Academy's From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism

5189 days ago
Guardian Music — Curator MaryAnne Stevens introduces the exhibition that forms the backdrop to the London Philharmonic's Music in the Courtyard concert on Saturday 1 SeptemberFrom Paris: A Taste for Impressionism, Paintings from the Clark brings together 73 masterpie... more info

LPO Music in the Courtyard - programme notes

5189 days ago
Guardian Music — Join us on Saturday 1 September at 7.30pm for the first ever classical music concert to take place in the Royal Academy's historic courtyard. The programme of French music complements the RA's current exhibition, From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism... more info

Prom 56: BBCSO/Knussen – review

5192 days ago
Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonFixed points in the Proms come in many guises. One of these, never formally announced as such but an annual staple nevertheless, is the season's Oliver Knussen Prom. The Olly Prom has its own fixed points, too: a clutch of co... more info

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