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Koechlin: Magicien Orchestrateur – review

4561 days ago
Guardian MusicWegener/Hoelscher/Stuttgart SWR RSO/Holliger(Hänssler)Charles Koechlin's list of original works includes well over 200 opus numbers, but he was also a prodigious and skilled orchestrator, regularly transcribing not only his own chamber pieces but mu... more info

Magdalena Kožená/Mitsuko Uchida – review

4571 days ago
Guardian MusicWigmore Hall, LondonNow in her late 30s, the Czech mezzo Magdalena Kožená's voice is changing, growing in size and power, though losing some of its surface beauty in the process. In this lengthy and varied programme encompassing Mahler, Debussy and... more info

Music-in-the-Round – review

4576 days ago
Guardian MusicCrucible, SheffieldIt is interesting to speculate how 20th-century music might have turned out were it not for the invention of the sewing machine. If Paris was the capital of the European avant garde, then the salon hosted by the American heiress Wi... more info

Ars Nova/BBCNOW/Rophé – review

4577 days ago
Guardian MusicHoddinott Hall, CardiffThe Vale of Glamorgan festival may not be on the laser side of cutting edge, yet it manages to extend its audience's aural horizons with an approach that appears benign but is actually quite radical. This performance by the BBC... more info

Debussy: Orchestral Works – review

4579 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Scottish National Orchestra/Denève (Chandos)In this set of nine Debussy orchestral works, Stéphane Denève challenges two preconceptions about his fellow Frenchman: first, that the sound should be a sensuous blur, a musical equivalent to the ... more info

Véronique Gens/Susan Manoff – review

4580 days ago
Guardian MusicWigmore Hall, LondonVéronique Gens was last seen in London in the title role of Steffani's Niobe at Covent Garden in 2010, and it is in the 17th- and 18th-century operatic repertoire, up to and including Mozart, that the French soprano has forged he... more info

Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien – review

4581 days ago
Guardian MusicHuppert/Radio France Choir/Gatti/Orchestre National de France(Radio France)Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien – a "mystery" by Gabriele d'Annunzio for which Debussy wrote the incidental music – caused ructions in its day (1911), thanks to the fact th... more info

Composer Jonathan Dove to write portrait in music to order

4586 days ago
Guardian MusicJonathan Dove invites suggestions for subject of pieceWhen Edward Elgar composed his Enigma Variations, he created lasting musical portraits of several of the people he was close to. Picking out themes to describe the anonymous characters of Nimrod o... more info

CBSO/Knussen – review

4587 days ago
Guardian MusicSymphony Hall, BirminghamOliver Knussen reaches 60 this year, and the British orchestras with whom he regularly works are queuing up to celebrate. The latest in line was the City of Birmingham Symphony for whom Knussen devised a programme that fram... more info

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp 2, 7, 10, 13 and 14, etc – review

4588 days ago
Guardian MusicJean-Efflam Bavouzet(Chandos, Three CDs)There are any number of ways of navigating a route through Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas on disc, but after his series devoted to Haydn and Debussy, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is opting for the most straightforward, a... more info

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