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Ten productions that changed British opera

4700 days ago
Guardian MusicWe celebrate the directors who have reinvigorated the genre• Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (John Cox, Glyndebourne, 1975)With designs by David Hockney parodying the William Hogarth engravings that inspired the opera, Cox's production has become... more info

(Just Heard) Brooklyn Philharmonic looking for Beethoven remixes

4701 days ago
Impose MagazineBrooklyn-based DJs, producers, and sample enthusiasts in general: have you ever dreamed of having your work brought to life by a full orchestra and played alongside Mos Def in concert? You probably haven't, because that's an oddly specific an... more info

In praise of … Brahms | Editorial

4701 days ago
Guardian MusicBrahms's music still thrives thanks to his drive to express the most radical ideas within strictly established disciplinesAimez-vous Brahms? Answers to Françoise Sagan's question are more equivocal than they once were. Brahms's music is still greatl... more info

Viktoria Mullova: from Russia in a blond wig

4703 days ago
Guardian MusicViktoria Mullova fled the USSR because she hated it. The violinist tells Erica Jeal what finally returning to her homeland has meant for her musicBefore you even look at the repertoire on Viktoria Mullova's latest recording, the title brings you up s... more info

Edinburgh Festival 2011: Llyr Williams plays Beethoven

4710 days ago
The TelegraphWelsh pianist Llyr Williams scales the Beethoven mountain and plays Beethoven's complete Piano Sonata cycle at Edinburgh Festival. more info

Desert Island Discs 100: Vaughan Williams at No 1 but Elvis is nowhere

4713 days ago
Guardian MusicMichael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Madonna fail to make it into Radio 4 listeners' top choices for Desert island DiscsElvis Presley, Michael Jackson and Madonna failed to get one song onto a top 100 Desert Island Discs playlist chosen by listeners to... more info

Alex Steinweiss obituary

4714 days ago
Guardian MusicArtist who created the concept of the album cover with his series of eye-catching designsAlex Steinweiss, who has died aged 94, pioneered the concept of record album covers, when music was still released on 78rpm shellac, and was the inventor of the ... more info

From the archive, 4 August 1924: Beethoven's bargain with a Baden landlord

4716 days ago
Guardian MusicOriginally published in the Manchester Guardian on 4 August 1924BADEN (NEAR VIENNA), JULYJuly was probably just as unbearably hot in Vienna a hundred years ago as it is in our days. The second half of the spring regularly found Beethoven in search of... more info

My favourite album: the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack

4717 days ago
Guardian MusicIn the first of a new series where Guardian and Observer writers pick their favourite albums of all time, Alexis Petridis hails the definitive disco recordIn the latter part of their career, the Bee Gees became known for walking out of interviews at ... more info

Prom 23: BBC Philharmonic/Noseda – review

4718 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Albert Hall, LondonThis was Gianandrea Noseda's last concert as the BBC Philharmonic's chief conductor – he returns as conductor laureate later this year – and, as so often in his closing season, his programme combined the retrospective wit... more info

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