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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X theguardian.com/media/2024/n…
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Lawrence Power/Philharmonia/Salonen review – commitment and virtuosity in works old and brand new theguardian.com/music/2024/n…

Lawrence Power/Philharmonia/Salonen review – commitment and virtuosity in works old and brand new

Two concerts, including the UK premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s fiercely challenging Viola Concerto, showcased the versatility and communicative skills of Lawrence Power

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LSO/Mäkelä review – dazzle and drama, but always backed by exceptional musicality theguardian.com/music/2024/n…

LSO/Mäkelä review – dazzle and drama, but always backed by exceptional musicality

A turbo-charged performance from the young conductor, carefully paced and full of bold choices, brought out the beauty and the terror of Stravinsky’s score

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The Brandenburg Concertos on tour review – OAE and Bach lift the spirits theguardian.com/music/2024/n…

The Brandenburg Concertos on tour review – OAE and Bach lift the spirits

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment combine virtuosity with a practised nonchalance to soothe our age’s anxieties

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Distant Voices, New Worlds review | John Lewis's contemporary album of the month theguardian.com/music/2024/n…

Distant Voices, New Worlds review | John Lewis's contemporary album of the month

Inspired by the South Downs near Brighton, this selection box of new work from contemporary composers is English to its core – and yet defies tradition

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LPO/Gardner/Ólafsson review – fierce Brahms and a rich Waley-Cohen premiere theguardian.com/music/2024/n…

LPO/Gardner/Ólafsson review – fierce Brahms and a rich Waley-Cohen premiere

Vikingur Ólafsson’s performance of Brahms’s first piano concerto was the evening’s main attraction, but those who left at the interval missed the world premiere of Freya Waley-Cohen’s ambitious and...

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The Frans Brüggen Project album review – Horsch’s fascinating recorder review theguardian.com/music/2024/n…

The Frans Brüggen Project album review – Horsch’s fascinating recorder review

On a record where instruments matter more than the music, Horsch celebrates Brüggen and the remarkable 17th and 18th-century recorders he collected

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Brahms: Piano Sonata No 1; Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy, D760 album review – beautifully shaped works and a bravura performance theguardian.com/music/2024/n…

Brahms: Piano Sonata No 1; Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy, D760 album review – beautifully shaped works...

The French pianist revels in the virtuoso demands of Brahms’s early sonata

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WEDO/Barenboim review – optimism and despondency as visionary conductor returns to London theguardian.com/music/2024/n…

WEDO/Barenboim review – optimism and despondency as visionary conductor returns to London

Making their second visit to the capital this year, a frail Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra played sun-drenched Mendelssohn and stately Brahms with command and beauty

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‘A shot of adrenaline for tired ears’: our classical writers on the music that energises them theguardian.com/music/2024/n…

‘A shot of adrenaline for tired ears’: our classical writers on the music that energises them

On the day that Radio 3 launches Unwind, a station dedicated to calming and restorative music, we choose instead the pieces we go to that excite, motivate and thrill us

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The week in classical: Welsh National Opera’s Il trittico; Oxford international song festival – review theguardian.com/music/2024/n…

The week in classical: Welsh National Opera’s Il trittico; Oxford international song festival –...

Even as they fight for survival, WNO give their all in Puccini at his most affecting – and funniest

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Holst: Sāvitri album review – underrated jewel of 20th-century British music theguardian.com/music/2024/o…

Holst: Sāvitri album review – underrated jewel of 20th-century British music

Switching a mezzo for a soprano in the title role, this impressive recording of one of Holst’s most important works is a fitting celebration of the 150th anniversary of his birth

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Groping, greed and the lust for great power: what Wagner’s Ring Cycle tells us about Trump v Harris theguardian.com/music/2024/o…

Groping, greed and the lust for great power: what Wagner’s Ring Cycle tells us about Trump v Harris

US politics may lack swords and spears, dragons and talking birds, but Wagner’s tale of money, power, rivalry and grudges still carries striking parallels with the US elections

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Nonclassical at 20 – synths, screams and bubble wrap as record label celebrates with the LSO theguardian.com/music/2024/o…

Nonclassical at 20 review – synths, screams and bubble wrap as record label celebrates with the LSO

Gabriel Prokofiev’s avant garde record label marked its 20th birthday with an engaging and energetic scaled up showcase

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Bojan Bujić obituary theguardian.com/education/20…

Bojan Bujić obituary

Other lives: Lecturer at Reading and Oxford universities with a specialist knowledge of the musical landscape of Europe

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‘His music has joy and energy. It is luminous’: Steven Isserlis on the genius of Gabriel Fauré theguardian.com/music/2024/o…

‘His music has joy and energy. It is luminous’: Steven Isserlis on the genius of Gabriel Fauré

Fauré is widely known for his beautiful Requiem and Pavane. But, says the British cellist, there is far more of his often radical work to enjoy and explore

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LSO/Tilson Thomas review – emotional depth as Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony gleams theguardian.com/music/2024/o…

LSO/Tilson Thomas review – emotional depth as Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony gleams

The London Symphony Orchestra’s Conductor Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas celebrated his 80th birthday with an authoritative but restrained account of Mahler’s Second with soloists Alice Coote and...

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BBC Young Musician competition crowns pianist Ryan Wang theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…

BBC Young Musician competition crowns pianist Ryan Wang

The biennial competition that counts Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Nicola Benedetti as previous victors was won by the 17-year-old Canadian for his performance of Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto

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Sibelius: Violin Concerto, Serenades, Humoresques album review – James Ehnes at his sublime best theguardian.com/music/2024/o…

Sibelius: Violin Concerto, Serenades, Humoresques album review – James Ehnes at his sublime best

The star violinist gives a muscular yet sensitive account of the composer’s only concerto, alongside other works for violin and orchestra

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Grace Williams: Orchestral Works album review – vivid playing and striking drama theguardian.com/music/2024/o…

Grace Williams: Orchestral Works album review – vivid playing and striking drama

Vienna and Vaughan Williams are among the Welsh composer’s influences, but these orchestral pieces also show off her own distinctive style

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