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Schubert: Symphony No 9 etc – review

4759 days ago

Guardian Music — Budapest Festival O/Fischer (Channel Classics)Conductors generally approach Schubert's last symphony as if its nickname, the "Great C major", signalled something portentous, and so scale it up to match, continuing where Beethoven's Ninth left off, ... more info

Beethoven: Fidelio, CD review

4759 days ago

The Telegraph — Nina Stemme (Leonore), Jonas Kaufmann (Florestan), Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, cond Claudio Abbado. Rating: * * * * * more info

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Daniel Barenboim; Aldeburgh festival; L'amico Fritz – review

4764 days ago

Guardian Music — Wigmore Hall, London; Aldeburgh, Suffolk; Opera Holland Park, LondonIn March 1827, the young Schubert walked behind Beethoven's coffin in homage to his hero. By the end of the following year, after an outpouring of miraculous compositions, but ill, ... more info

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The Infernal Comedy - review

4765 days ago

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonWritten for John Malkovich, two sopranos, a baroque orchestra, and its conductor, Michael Sturminger's The Infernal Comedy is a disquieting music theatre piece about Jack Unterweger, an Austrian serial killer and writer, who committed... more info

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A Book of Liszts by John Spurling – review

4765 days ago

Guardian Music — What was it about Liszt that made women faint and fight each other?"My biography is more to be invented than written after the fact" – so wrote Franz Liszt, and so it has proved to be. Many interpretations of his life, some extremely thorough and s... more info

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Daniel Barenboim – review

4766 days ago

Guardian Music — Wigmore Hall, LondonIt is more than 30 years since Daniel Barenboim played the Wigmore Hall where, as a prodigy in short trousers, he once performed Beethoven's Hammer-klavier sonata. This much-anticipated return was a huge and happy coup for the Wig... more info

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Is pianistic perfection all that it's cracked up to be?

4767 days ago

Guardian Music — We demand note-perfect renditions from the musicians we hear, but do the right notes really matter in a great performance?Daniel Barenboim rarely plays all of the right notes. He certainly didn't get everything right a couple of nights ago at the Roy... more info

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Tuned In: Music festivals multiply -- a new Bach series launches in San Francisco

4769 days ago

Mercury News, California — Roll over, Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news: Mozart's got to scooch over a bit to make room for Bach on the Bay Area summer music festival scene this year. more info

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Tom Service on the Spira Mirabilis

4770 days ago

Guardian Music — I have seen the future of orchestral music. And boy, is it good. Spira Mirabilis are an un-conducted ensemble drawn from some of Europe's best young orchestral players, most of them under 30. In residence at the Aldeburgh festival this week, they'll ... more info

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Vaughan Williams is top of the Discs

4771 days ago

Scotsman.com — THE Beatles, Bob Dylan and Beethoven were among the most popular artists chosen by the public when they were invited to compile their own Desert Island Discs. more info

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Schubert: Symphony No 9 etc – review

Beethoven: Fidelio, CD review

Daniel Barenboim; Aldeburgh festival; L'amico Fritz – review

The Infernal Comedy - review

A Book of Liszts by John Spurling – review

Daniel Barenboim – review

Is pianistic perfection all that it's cracked up to be?

Tuned In: Music festivals multiply -- a new Bach series launches in San Francisco

Tom Service on the Spira Mirabilis

Vaughan Williams is top of the Discs

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