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Classical music

July 2024

  • Penarth Chamber Music Festival Gala concert<br>Matthew Johnson Photographer 2024

    Penarth chamber music festival review – 10th anniversary of a classy affair

    The gala celebration featured flamboyant Ravel, an elegant new work from Huw Watkins and deeply expressive Strauss

June 2024

  • Henry Waddington, Madison Leonard &amp; Grant Doyle (standing) with Joshua Hopkins &amp; Christine Rice in Un giorno di regno opens Garsinggton Opera 29.06.24 photo credit Richard Hubert Smith

    Un Giorno di Regno review – fizzing revival of Verdi’s failed comedy

  • Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen and Louise Alder in Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne

    The week in classical: Giulio Cesare; Così fan tutte; Siegfried/Götterdämmerung – review

  • TorySpare us the cutter … will a new government see a new settlement for the arts?

    ‘The business is no longer sustainable’: the inside story of how Tory cuts devastated the arts

  • Dancers on stage

    French court rules Boléro was Ravel’s work alone

  • Nardus Williams/Elizabeth Kenny review – compelling and crystalline duo open Spitalfields festival

  • Goldscheider/Dawson review – the horn is plenty

  • Songs for Peter Pears album review – wide-ranging and lucid collection

  • Stradella: Mottetti album review – flair and style, brilliantly executed

  • Così fan Tutte review – self-conscious staginess is surreal fun in beautifully sung revival

  • ‘Dazzling, beautiful and vital’ – Mishka Rushdie Momen on Tudor keyboard masterpieces

  • The Rake’s Progress review – stripped back staging foregrounds the sadness

  • Sumidagawa/Curlew River review – Britten’s work reunited with its medieval Japanese inspiration

  • BBCSSO/Wigglesworth/Pioro/Gerhardt review – consummate artistry and a broken string

  • Kolesnikov/Tsoy: Franz Schubert/Leonid Desyatnikov review – a piano duo of rare intimacy

  • The week in classical: Das Rheingold/Die Walküre; Paul Wee; Köln Concert – review

  • LSO/Noseda review – Beamish’s Distans is virtuousic and exquisite

  • Zemlinsky: Eine Florentinische Tragödie album review – adultery and murder in Renaissance Italy

  • Chamayou: Cage² album review – each piece is a brightly coloured gem

  • Katia and Marielle Labèque review – Glass’s Cocteau trilogy perfumes the air, literally

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