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Proms 2012: week three in review

4248 days ago
Guardian MusicIt was a week in which Barenboim brought the best of humanity to London's South Kensington – and Gromit brought canine compositionSomething often overlooked about the Proms is that underneath all the hype and pseudo-spiritual hyperbolising is somet... more info

Prom 18: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Barenboim – review

4251 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Albert Hall, LondonThere is nothing quite like Beethoven's Choral Symphony. The most cosmic of Beethoven's works in its journey from darkness and chaos to light and unity, it is also the most brazen in its humanism. Introducing the final moveme... more info

Proms 9, 10, 12 ,13: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; Cadogan Hall Proms; Falstaff – review

4252 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Albert Hall; Cadogan Hall; Opera Holland Park, all LondonOne of Daniel Barenboim's more unnerving habits, witnessed during his electrifying Beethoven-Boulez cycle at the Proms this week, is to stop conducting mid bar, usually when the orchestra... more info

Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony – review

4252 days ago
Guardian MusicBergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Juanjo Mena, Steven Osborne, Cynthia Millar (Hyperion)Two formidable Messiaen interpreters – pianist Steven Osborne and ondes Martenot player Cynthia Millar – give this exciting new recording of the Turangalîla Symp... more info

Proms 16 & 17: BBC Now/Wigglesworth; West-Eastern Divan Players – review

4253 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Albert Hall, LondonHugh Wood has been regularly supported by the Proms since Scenes from Comus, the work that made his reputation, was first performed there in 1965. Four further commissions have followed, all substantial scores; among them is ... more info

The Proms are richer than ever – even without Mozart's symphonies | Nicholas Kenyon

4254 days ago
Guardian MusicMartin Kettle says Mozart has been neglected by the Proms, yet he underestimates the influences at work in this dazzling displayMartin Kettle raises some important points about the changing classical music canon (How we are losing touch with Mozart's... more info

Beethoven + Boulez = Revelation

4254 days ago
Guardian MusicDaniel Barenboim's Beethoven may be the big draw at the Proms this week, but it's his programming of Boulez that has proved so illuminatingThere's something remarkable going on at the Royal Albert Hall this week. I mean, of course, Daniel Barenboim's... more info

Review: Excellent Pacifica Quartet program at Music@Menlo will repeat tonight in Palo Alto

4255 days ago
Mercury News, CaliforniaThe Pacific Quartet, in a Music@Menlo program, is performing three works with strong narrative arcs, by Beethoven, Janacek and Smetana. more info

TV highlights 26/07/12

4255 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Midnight Beast | Natural World: Tiger Island | BBC Proms 2012 | The Churchills | Obsessive Compulsive Hoarder: The Big Clear Out | Frontline: The New AsylumsThe Midnight Beast10pm, E4 There's friction in the band this week. Ash is warned that his... more info

Prom 13: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Barenboim – review

4255 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Albert Hall, LondonThere is a summer love-in going on at the Albert Hall this week between the Proms audience and Daniel Barenboim's Arab-Israeli orchestra as they make their way through the Beethoven symphonies and works of Pierre Boulez. And ... more info

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