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Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 7 – review

4175 days ago
Guardian MusicOrchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/Gardiner (SDG)"It felt as if we were playing for our lives," writes oboist Michael Niesemann in his sleeve note on this recording of a Carnegie Hall concert given last year by John Eliot Gardiner with the Orch... more info

A guide to Jörg Widmann's music

4180 days ago
Guardian MusicWidmann's essential project is to reveal the continuing vitality of Mozart or Schubert – and he brings it kicking and screaming into the present dayListen to this. Sound familiar? It both should – and shouldn't. Jörg Widmann's Third String Quart... more info

Graham Jackson obituary

4186 days ago
Guardian MusicMy friend, colleague and former student Graham Jackson, who has died aged 45, was a conductor with Welsh National Opera and Bremen State Opera and the opera theatres at Mönchengladbach and Krefeld in Germany. Despite suffering from cancer, Graham wo... more info

Review: Paul Polivnick leads Symphony Silicon Valley's season-opening concert featuring Beethoven's Fifth

4188 days ago
Mercury News, CaliforniaPaul Polivnick, a physically charismatic conductor, communicates as much clarity of purpose to an audience as to his musicians, and hearing the results is as pleasurable as watching him at work. more info

Philharmonia/Salonen – review

4190 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Festival Hall, LondonSome conductors would be content to open an orchestral season with Beethoven's Choral symphony and leave it at that. Not Esa-Pekka Salonen. The Philharmonia's principal conductor is an ideas man. As one would expect, he del... more info

Baroque masterpiece triumphs at Gramophone awards 2012

4191 days ago
Guardian MusicPianist Benjamin Grosvenor, Claudio Abbado and tenor Joseph Calleja also among winners at the prestigious classical music awards ceremonyThe Gramophone awards – the Oscars of classical music – recognised some of the recording industry's brightest... more info

George Hurst: an obituary

4194 days ago
Guardian MusicInfluential conductor and teacher with a remarkable talent for inspiring his studentsGeorge Hurst, who has died at the age of 86, may not have been a household name on the podium, but the mark he made on British conducting of the past half-century wa... more info

A guide to Wolfgang Rihm's music

4194 days ago
Guardian MusicHis enormous output and bewildering variety of styles and sounds make Rihm a true original, and worth getting to knowTradition, Mahler once famously said, is "Schlamperei" - which means something akin to sloppiness. Mahler meant it in terms of perfor... more info

The Beatitudes by Arthur Bliss – review

4195 days ago
Guardian MusicCoventry CathedralEvents to mark this year's 50th anniversary of the consecration of Coventry Cathedral have already included a performance of the most famous work composed for the occasion. But Britten's War Requiem was by no means the only commissi... more info

Brahms and Berg: Violin Concertos – review

4198 days ago
Guardian MusicCapuçon/Vienna PO/Harding(Virgin Classics)One outstanding version of Berg's Violin Concerto has already appeared this year, Isabelle Faust's performance with Claudio Abbado and the Orchestra Mozart, which was paired with Beethoven's concerto. Renaud... more info

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