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Review: San Francisco Symphony explores loss, contemplation, redemption

5023 days ago
Mercury News, CaliforniaThe choral-orchestral program features Mozart's Mass, Morton Feldman's 'Rothko Chappel' and Ukrainian composer Mindaugas Urbaitis' 'Lacrimosa.' more info

CPE Bach: like father, like son

5023 days ago
Guardian MusicForward-thinking and unorthodox, CPE Bach was once regarded as the superior musician of the Bach dynasty. Guy Dammann argues for an underrated and overshadowed composer"Bach is the father. We are the children!" No one with a smattering of musical kno... more info

Sue Arnold's audiobook choice

5029 days ago
Guardian MusicOpera Explained: La Traviata and the SmartPass Guide to King LearOpera Explained: An Introduction to Verdi – La Traviata, by Thomson Smillie, read by David Timson (68mins, Naxos, £5.95)Enlightenment for the price of a pizza, Italy's other great gi... more info

Fox pop: English Touring Opera gives Roald Dahl back to the kids

5030 days ago
Guardian MusicA new version of ETO's Fantastic Mr Fox casts 250 children. Roald Dahl would approveWe are surrounded by strange things: guns and goblets, pebble-shaped buns and a goose that has keeled over. Amid the props in a cramped east London rehearsal studio, ... more info

Conductor Sir Colin Collapses Before Royal Opera House Show

5030 days ago
ContactMusicConductor SIR COLIN DAVIS shocked opera fans when he collapsed before reaching the podium for a performance at London's Royal Opera House on Wednesday (16Feb11).The 83 year old was set to conduct Mozart's The Magic Flute at the revered venue when he ... more info

Vienna Tonkünstler/Andrés Orozco-Estrada – review

5034 days ago
Guardian MusicColston Hall, BristolOn their home patch, the Vienna Tonkünstler orchestra balance classical with contemporary repertoire. On their UK tour, however, they have played safe with Beethoven and Brahms as main fare. As yet, neither their principal condu... more info

LSO/Daniel Harding – review

5034 days ago
Guardian MusicBarbican, LondonStrauss always said Nietzsche was the most important intellectual influence on his life and work, a statement many people have doubted over the years. The ambiguous ending of Also Sprach Zarathustra, based on Nietzsche's magnum opus, ... more info

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 27, CD review

5036 days ago
The TelegraphMitsuko Uchida, Cleveland Orchestra. Rating: * * * * more info

Die Zauberflöte – review

5036 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Opera House, LondonThere are no particular weaknesses in this latest Covent Garden revival of David McVicar's dependable darkness-into-light Die Zauberflöte, first seen in 2003. But there is also only one truly stand-out presence: the 83-year-... more info

Stéphane Degout: Mélodies

5037 days ago
Guardian MusicDegout/LucasIn the UK we think of Stéphane Degout primarily in terms of Mozart, forgetting, perhaps, that he's also one of today's finest exponents of French song. This disc redresses the balance. The recording is on the close side, catching the occ... more info

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