classical music & opera
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Béatrice Et Bénédict | War Passion | Of Land, Sea And Sky | Kommilitonen! | Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret
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This remarkable set reveals the ever increasing complexity and harmonic palette of the minimalist composer’s early works
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Marc Minkowski presented works with a Parisian connection by Fauré, Poulenc and Stravinsky, played with refinement by the BBC Symphony
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There are flashes of Noël Coward in a production that relocates Strauss’s critique of hedonism to 1930s London – and adds a Brexit twist
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Choristers and soloists brought freshness and precision to the Beethoven mass in conductor Gianandrea Noseda’s keenly expressive interpretation
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Former ENO head, who left the beleaguered UK opera house last year, has not confirmed stories he is to be given a senior appointment at the Russian theatre
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This rarely heard work by Soviet-era composer Galina Ustvolskaya is unusually scored and carries an almost physical charge, dominating the programme
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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In the second of a new series, Stephen Moss traverses Paris through the musicians who lived and loved there; give us your suggestions for next week’s city, Venice, below
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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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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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