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Portrait of the artist: Janine Jansen, violinist

5457 days ago
Guardian Music — 'I try to take reviews with a pinch of salt. But I'm devastated when someone says I played without feeling'What got you started?My whole family are musicians, so there was always a lot of music around. I started out singing in the choir that my fath... more info

Click to Download: Abbey Road composition competition, Okkervil River, Odd Future

5462 days ago
Guardian Music — Abbey Road Studios has started its own talent competition – and it beats the heck out of the X Factor, reckons Chris SalmonEarly in 2011, Abbey Road Studios launched a contest for unsigned composers as part its 80th anniversary celebrations. Entran... more info

LSO/Gergiev/Mutter – review

5463 days ago
Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonValery Gergiev's latest concert with the London Symphony Orchestra marked the start of Anne-Sophie Mutter's residency with the orchestra, as well as forming an 80th birthday tribute to the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina. Mutter pl... more info

LSO/Zhang – review

5482 days ago
Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonAlexander Zemlinsky's only symphonic poem, The Mermaid (Die Seejungfrau), based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale about the water nymph who yearned to experience human love, is still a bit of a rarity. Zemlinsky withdrew the scor... more info

Joan of Arc at the Stake – review

5486 days ago
Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonArthur Honegger's dramatic oratorio formed the opening gesture in what the London Symphony Orchestra called its Joan of Arc weekend, with Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light, written as a score to Carl Dreyer's film The Passion of Jo... more info

Orchestras and bands join the fight for Yorkshire's amazing music and drama library

5490 days ago
Guardian Music — Thursday is decision day in Wakefield for an organisation which has made the city famous among amateur musicians and theatre groups across the UKMusic makers across the north of England, and indeed more widely, are on tenterhooks as the countdown tic... more info

LSO/Järvi – review

5507 days ago
Guardian Music — Barbican Hall, LondonThis concert in celebration of Steve Reich's birthday – the American composer turned 75 two weeks ago – began with the sound of clapping and ended with an ovation. Both were inevitable. Reich himself partnered Neil Percy in... more info

War Requiem – review

5512 days ago
Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThe London Symphony Orchestra and its chorus are about to visit New York to give three concerts at the Lincoln Centre. Large-scale choral music features prominently, with Colin Davis repeating the performance of Beethoven's Missa Sole... more info

In praise of … Claudio Abbado | Editorial

5513 days ago
Guardian Music — Few musicians have founded more orchestras and found time to be chief conductor of La Scala and the Berlin PhilharmonicFew orchestral concerts in years have had the classical music public's anticipatory juices running as strongly as those by Claudio ... more info

LSO/Davis/Uchida – review

5518 days ago
Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonCarl Nielsen, the musical pride of Denmark, has never had a UK champion persuasive enough to lift his works – bar his Fourth and perhaps Fifth Symphonies – into the repertoire. Until now, that is: it's only a shame that Colin Dav... more info

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