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Hallé/Elder – review

4604 days ago
Guardian MusicBridgewater Hall, ManchesterThere is a school of thought that Beethoven made history with his odd-numbered symphonies and marked time with the even-numbered ones. It's an oversimplification, yet the modestly scored Fourth invariably lives in the shad... more info

World premiere of Anthony Burgess's songs

4605 days ago
Guardian MusicMusicians at Manchester University performed at the premiere of "A Clockwork Operetta" inspired by Anthony Burgess's most famous workHe's best known for his novel A Clockwork Orange, but the depth of Anthony Burgess's work is much broader.On Thursday... more info

Lou Reed Gets His Own Headphones

4606 days ago
StereogumFine, sure, everybody hated Lulu. But maybe we were just listening to it wrong! As Exclaim! points out, Lou Reed has just released his own line of signature Klipsch earbuds — a steal at $399.99 — and maybe those headphones’ increased fidelity w... more info

Bath Mozartfest – review

4608 days ago
Guardian MusicAssembly Rooms, BathThe Mozartfest, this year celebrating its 20th anniversary, opened with a performance by the Emerson String Quartet of two of Mozart's Prussian quartets, K589 and 590, the last he wrote.The Emersons' characteristic transparency he... more info

Johnny Raducanu

4612 days ago
Guardian MusicRomania's Mr Jazz who sought perfection as player, composer and teacherThe jazz pianist and double bass player Johnny Raducanu has died of a heart attack aged 79. For more than 30 years he had been pre-eminent in Romania as performer, composer and te... more info

ORR/John Eliot Gardiner – review

4612 days ago
Guardian MusicQueen Elizabeth Hall, LondonA generation ago, a John Eliot Gardiner Beethoven concert was a gathering of rebel upstarts, of musical sans-culottes throwing down a radical performance practice challenge to what Gardiner, in his pre-concert speech, call... more info

Take five: my favourite symphonies

4614 days ago
Guardian MusicMark Elder named the five symphonies that changed musical history; here are my own picksBeethoven 9Yes, it's the chorus, of course, and the entire universe of the secular, the sacred and the joyous that Beethoven composes in the finale. But it's real... more info

OAE/Noseda – review

4616 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Festival Hall, LondonHow should one feel after a performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis? Elated at the memory of the jubilant Gloria? Uneasy at the disquiet of the Agnus Dei, and the way in which the choir seems to finish on an unresolved... more info

Gewandhaus Orchestra/Chailly – review

4619 days ago
Guardian MusicBarbican, LondonRiccardo Chailly's Barbican Beethoven cycle with his storied Leipzig orchestra has been one of the musical pinnacles of the year. Yes, in specific movements Chailly's tempi have been disconcertingly fast, even by modern standards, and... more info

Schubert: Piano Sonatas D840, 850 and 894; Impromptus D899; Klavierstücke D946

4619 days ago
Guardian MusicPaul Lewis(Harmonia Mundi, two CDs)Seven years have passed since Paul Lewis's last solo Schubert recording, and this latest collection coincides with his continuing series of Schubert recitals. It groups together the three sonatas of 1825 and 1826 â... more info

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