classical music & opera
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In this year of Shakespeare celebrations, the opera world too is marking the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. Glyndebourne not least, with one new and one old Shakespearean productions in their summer season. Do you know your Titania from your Trinculo? Try our quiz
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Michael Tippett began his celebrated oratorio on the day war was declared in 1939. Its inclusion in this year’s Proms could not feel more timely, says conductor Mark Wigglesworth
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Fine singing and playing make Garsington’s production a powerful experience but director Tim Albery has missed an opportunity to offer a sharper critique
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For centuries, cathedral and college choir across Britain have been exclusively populated by school-age boys – but with the admission of girls, an outdated practice is finally breaking down
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From the classical archive, 12 April 1966: The conductor and composer on tonality, success and failure, and crossword puzzles
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In the first of a new series, Stephen Moss looks at our European great cultural centres through the prism of the music that they have inspired. We begin with London; give us your suggestions for next week’s city, Paris, below
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Phantasm, Elizabeth Kenny (lute)
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Maximilian Hornung (cello), Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Serebrier
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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Jansons
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facing the music
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The US tenor, singing Bénédict at Glyndebourne, loves Berlioz, Bob Dylan and William Balcom, warms up with Radiohead and works a room with Otis Redding
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From Adès, Janáček, Berg and Big Tom to bottomless teddies and human fridges – the Scottish tenor talks about his musical loves on and off the stage
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The neo-classical composer is shaking the establishment with his experimental piano but it manipulates the emotions too
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With American orchestras reluctant to celebrate the music of its great symphonists, fellow composer and Aspen festival’s CEO Alan Fletcher is determined to put them back in the spotlight
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From writing the ultimate tearjerker for Paolo Sorrentino to commemorating the bloodiest day in British military history, David Lang takes it all in his stride. He tells Kate Molleson about the power of repetition and his mechanised co-writer
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In a spectacular tribute to David Bowie, the US composer’s Heroes symphony is being performed at midnight on Saturday at Glastonbury’s Park stage. Ahead of the set, he discusses his longstanding friendship with the late musician
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Bouquets beneath the Humber bridge, the mayor of Gibraltar in his trunks, windfarms and mudflats … the train ride from Goole to Hull has become a symphony of stories
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Minimalist music is far from a modern invention. The violinist picks her favourite works that prove that you can get something out of nothing
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Tom Service's survey of the 50 symphonies that changed classical music
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Tom Service introduces 50 composers from the contemporary classical music scene
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