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John Alldis obituary

5037 days ago
Guardian MusicOne of the foremost British chorus masters of his generationJohn Alldis, who has died of pneumonia aged 81, was one of the foremost chorus masters of his generation. His own professional ensemble, the John Alldis Choir, was a pioneer in the high-cali... more info

Celebrity Lookalikes: Casting An IRL 'Charlie Brown Christmas'

5038 days ago
Big Apple Music SceneWatching A Charlie Brown Christmas is our favorite holiday tradition. Every Christmas Eve, the hole family gathers around the TV to watch Lucy skate, Schroeder bang out a piano rendition of Beethoven, and Charlie pick out the saddest little tree in t... more info

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 2 'Lobgesang' - review

5040 days ago
Guardian Music(Naxos)"Watchman, will the night soon pass?" asks trenchant tenor Christian Elsner in this fine recording of Mendelssohn's sprawling choral symphony, written in 1840 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gutenberg's invention of the printing press. S... more info

Scottish Ensemble – review

5041 days ago
Guardian MusicQueen's Hall, EdinburghIn Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata, a husband murders his wife after hearing her play Beethoven with a stranger: the intensity of their musical connection drives him mad with jealousy. The novella was censored in Russia a... more info

Llŷr Williams – review

5043 days ago
Guardian MusicReardon Smith Lecture Hall, Cardiff2010 has been a Beethoven year for Llyˆr Williams. Having just completed the sonata cycle at his Perth Concert Hall series, he returned to Cardiff for this performance of the last great triptych, formed by Op 109,... more info

See the world premiere of POLAR at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

5043 days ago
Guardian MusicExtra members can get £39 tickets for just £19.50 to see the performance on Saturday 8 JanuaryPOLAR is a multimedia concert experience which takes the audience on a journey to the magical frozen lands at the ends of the earth in the company of the ... more info

Review: Pianist Nicolas Hodges tackles demanding solo works by Stockhausen and Beethoven

5045 days ago
Mercury News, CaliforniaPairing Stockhausen's 'Klavierstück X' with Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata made fiendish demands on the pianist and perhaps even revealed some links between the two works, composed more than a century apart. more info

Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall, review

5045 days ago
The TelegraphA concert which contrasted two worlds of feeling: dark and death-haunted in the two Russian pieces, optimistic but with a dash of gruff humour in the Beethoven. Rating: * * * more info

LSO/Alsop – review

5051 days ago
Guardian MusicBarbican, LondonFive weeks ago, Vladimir Jurowski brought Mahler's reorchestration of Beethoven's Eroica to London for the first time; tonight, Marin Alsop's guest appearance with the London Symphony Orchestra provided the chance to sample more of Ma... more info

LPO/Jurowski – review

5052 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Festival Hall, LondonIn the latest instalment of the orchestra's ongoing Mahler cycle, the LPO's principal conductor Vladimir Jurowski slotted the discarded movement entitled Blumine (Flora) into a performance of Mahler's First Symphony that ot... more info

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