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Don Giovanni – review

4457 days ago
Guardian MusicTheatr Hafren, NewtownThere's plenty of sex in Don Giovanni: Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart's librettist, saw to that. With rape and murder in the opening scene, it's already explicit enough, you might suppose. Yet in updating the action in Mid-Wales Opera... more info

Mozart: Piano Concertos No 9, K271 and No 21, K467 – review

4460 days ago
Guardian MusicMitsuko Uchida (piano/ director), Cleveland Orchestra(Decca)Mitsuko Uchida's long association with the Cleveland Orchestra dates back to 1990, first as soloist then as conductor. Her relationship with the Mozart concertos goes back further. She bega... more info

BBC presenters in key for Piano Season

4463 days ago
Guardian MusicNicky Campbell joins Lang Lang in celebration of instrument that coincides with Leeds International Piano CompetitionThe presenters Nicky Campbell, Jane Garvey and Shaun Keaveny are among those to be transformed from complete novices to concert music... more info

Calixto Bieito: 'Shakespeare's theatre was full of blood and violence'

4465 days ago
Guardian MusicCalixto Bieito's productions brim with nudity, sex, and violence. Now the Catalan director turns his hand to an arboreal Shakespearean mash-upCalixto Bieito's rehearsal room is in a state of chaos. A huge pile of soil has been tipped over the floor; ... more info

Prom 60: The Marriage of Figaro – review

4468 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Albert Hall, LondonIt takes time to adjust ear and eye alike when the intimately crafted balances of a Mozart opera are transported from the confines of the opera house at Glyndebourne to the wide open spaces of the Albert Hall. This Prom visit... more info

Matthew E. White: Musik im Zeichen des Guten

4474 days ago
78sWieviel Gutes passt zwischen irdischen Schwermut und himmlisches Licht? “Big Inner” wird von Matthew E. White in sieben Liedern erzählt. Es ist eine Geschichte der Unterweisung, der Initiation und schliesslich der Inauguration, an deren Ende wie... more info

Glyndebourne 2012: Marriage of Figaro: part two - video

4477 days ago
Guardian MusicMichael Grandage's glorious new production of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro was live-streamed from Glyndebourne on Friday 17 August with Robin Ticciati conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. You can watch it again here until 2 September.... more info

Glyndebourne 2012: Marriage of Figaro: part one - video

4477 days ago
Guardian MusicMichael Grandage's glorious new production of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro was live-streamed from Glyndebourne on Friday 17 August with Robin Ticciati conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. You can watch it again here until 2 September.... more info

Prom 50: BBCSO/Vänskä – review

4478 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Albert Hall, LondonThe Mozart Clarinet Concerto we know and love is not quite the one he wrote: it's a tweaking of a work for the now-extinct basset clarinet, which has a handful of low notes that the modern clarinet cannot plumb. A picture of ... more info

Django Reinhardt: music, mischief and magic

4480 days ago
Guardian MusicDjango Reinhardt was a Gypsy jazz genius who kept on living in his caravan long after he found fame. Guitarist and devotee Martin Taylor explains why he has written a Prom in his honourI'm always being asked when I first heard Django Reinhardt's musi... more info

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