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The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius | Martin Kettle

4543 days ago

Guardian Music — Once fundamental to musical education, Mozart's symphonies are now being pushed to the cultural marginsMost people would find the claim that the modern world is seriously losing touch with the music of Mozart a ludicrous one. After all, Mozart is Moz... more info

Evelyn Lear

4546 days ago

Guardian Music — Glamorous soprano who made her name playing opera's neurotic modern heroinesBlessed with the looks of Elizabeth Taylor and a voice like Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's, the American soprano Evelyn Lear, who has died aged 86, had a good deal going for her. No... more info

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Proms 2012: my opera highlights

4549 days ago

Guardian Music — Opera's a major strand of this year's Proms festival. Here's some of my highlightsI must declare a soupçon of an interest here: I will be a little involved in the wee festival that starts tonight and will be a classical music soundtrack to the summe... more info

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Leopold String Trio/Osborne – review

4551 days ago

Guardian Music — Wigmore Hall, LondonFirst the Florestans. Now the Leopolds. Lady Bracknell would surely have had something incisive to say about the demise last year of Britain's leading piano trio and, now, of our premier practitioners of the less extensive string ... more info

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Uri Caine Trio – review

4552 days ago

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonIt may be the profession he states on his tax returns, but it comes as something of a surprise to discover that Uri Caine is a rather good jazz pianist. Most of his albums cast him as musical director for some wonderful but slig... more info

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West Side Story – review

4556 days ago

Guardian Music — Sage, GatesheadThe Sage has a remarkable theatrical record considering it isn't even a theatre. The Northern Sinfonia's semi-staged cycle of Mozart–Da Ponte operas was impressive; the premiere of Tod Machover's Skellig marked a first venture int... more info

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SCO Members/Llyr Williams – review

4559 days ago

Guardian Music — Various venues, East Neuk of FifeThe Scottish Chamber Orchestra has been de facto house band at East Neuk since the get-go – the festival first grew out of a summer concert series given by the orchestra around the bucolic south-east of Fife. And t... more info

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Les Troyens; Le nozze di Figaro; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel – review

4561 days ago

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, London; Glyndebourne, east Sussex; Royal Festival Hall, LondonMen and supermen, aristocratic women and suicidal Trojan Wags, ancient Carthage, modern Venezuela, a pre-Columbian tropical jungle and a groovy 1960s-style conga: last w... more info

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Le Nozze di Figaro – review

4564 days ago

Guardian Music — GlyndebourneLe Nozze di Figaro may be Glyndebourne's signature work, but it is 12 years since the last new production of Mozart's social satire was unveiled there. That version, which closed a Da Ponte trilogy by departing director of productions Gra... more info

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