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Classical music & opera

  • Barenboim has not conducted in the UK since 2019.

    News
    BBC unveils 2024 Proms lineup: Daniel Barenboim, Daleks and disco

  • ‘Forget about stage and audience, to mix and experience the absurdity, with humour and sarcasm’ … Kopitchanskaja performs with the LSO in 2023.

    ‘I’m not humble. I expect miracles’
    why violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja wants to blow you out of your seat

  • Andrew Davies faces to the left of the picture while smiling

    News
    Sir Andrew Davis, ex-chief conductor of BBC Symphony Orchestra, dies aged 80

    Musician had held top roles at Glyndebourne opera and in Chicago, Melbourne and Toronto orchestras
  • Panache … Sir Mark Elder and Eri Nakamura perform the original version of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra

    Review
    Simon Boccanegra – vast forces bring Verdi’s ‘fiasco’ to vivid life

  • Philippa Boyle – Southbank Sinfonia/Reynolds concert.

    Review
    Southbank Sinfonia/Reynolds – remarkable young orchestra shows that less can be more

  • ‘He made over 600 recordings in five decades’ … Sir Neville Marriner conducts the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite at Carnegie Hall in February 2007.

    Amadeus, Elgar, a bogus gold disc and Goldie Hawn
    Neville Marriner’s best recordings

  • Schubertiade 20th anniversary gala recital at Leeds Lieder festival 2024.

    Review
    Leeds Lieder festival Opening Gala – a good old-fashioned Schubertiade

Live reviews

  • Brett Anderson, hands on his mic stand, looking down, at the roundhouse

    Paraorchestra: Death Songbook live review – bittersweet ballads with Brett Anderson and friends

  • The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Sir András Schiff at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

    OAE/Schiff review – Mendelssohn deep dive is charged with energy and colour

  • Theatricality and chemistry … Ute Lemper.

    Ute Lemper review – intimate and mesmerising show celebrates an inimitable performer

  • Lucia di Lammermoor directed by Katie Mitchell, staring Nadine Sierra

    Lucia di Lammermoor review – a vocally breathtaking, disturbing to witness descent into madness

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Album reviews

  • Golda Schultz pointing to a small bust of Mozart, as if saying to him that he drives her crazy

    Classical home listening: Golda Schultz’s Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!; Kozłowski’s Requiem and more

  • Members of Los Angeles Master Chorale

    Adams: Girls of the Golden West album review – California gold rush opera has a definitive recording

  • Katia Skanavi and Kirill Gerstein Press publicity portrait supplied by PR © Andrej Grilc

    Music in Time of War: Debussy and Komitas album review – fascinating collection of composer’s final works

  • Intense, engaging … Isabelle Faust.

    Britten: Violin Concerto Chamber Works album review – bravura and brilliance as Faust turns to Britten’s violin writing

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People

  • Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn

    ‘Music for you must only be an ornament’
    How Fanny Mendelssohn’s voice was stifled, then saved

  • Martyn Brabbins rehearsing with English National Opera Orchestra at the Henry Wood Hall in London.

    News
    ENO’s music director resigns over proposed cuts to musical staff positions

  • Joana Mallwitz

    Conducting
    Joana Mallwitz is the first woman to lead a Berlin orchestra. And, no, she hasn’t seen Tár

  • Christian Thielemann

    News
    Christian Thielemann picks up baton as director of Berlin State Opera from old rival

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You may have missed

  • WNO rehearsals for Death in Venice

    ‘We’re all agog’:
    Behind the scenes at Welsh National Opera’s Death in Venice – a photo essay

  • Guy Johnston practising The Protecting Veil at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Divine Wisdom, February 2024

    ‘He had a mystical aura’
    Cellist Guy Johnston on John Tavener’s masterpiece The Protecting Veil

  • Violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Tom Poster. 2023

    Soaring, searching and silent for too long
    The remarkable life – and music – of composer Mel Bonis

  • Visitors queue at Halberstadt’s St Burchardi church in September 2020 for the 14th sound change in John Cage’s composition, Organ²/ASLSP As Slow as Possible.

    ‘There’s a certain madness to it'
    Fans await new chord in John Cage gig with 616 years left to run

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Guides

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    Know the score
    Without Ethel Smyth and classical music's forgotten women, we only tell half the story

    Leah Broad
  • From left: The Tempest, The Minotaur, L’amour de loin, Hamlet

    The best classical music works of the 21st century

  • A guide to contemporary classical music

  • Fireworks light the sky above the Brandenburg Gate shortly after midnight in Berlin, Friday, Jan. 1, 2016. Hundred of thousands of people gathered for the New Year celebrations, welcoming the new year 2016 at the area around the Brandenburg Gate in the capital of Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

    A musical tour of Europe
    Stephen Moss's guide to the music of Europe's great cities: Berlin

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