Music + Live music reviews
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The pianist was always in gracious dialogue with the orchestra in this second concert from the classiest of double acts
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Rocking jazz meets furiously free invention as the Mercury-nominated quintet tour their new album with trademark intensity
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The Norwegian brawlers pummel the club with punk pop drenched in party vibes, politics and hints of all-out mania
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The nimble ensemble delivered pithy Mendelssohn and Pärt, while the commanding Ibragimova added ferocious Hartmann and exuberant Bach
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Life, love and death unfold monumentally in Welsh National Opera’s spellbinding version of Frank Martin’s little-known oratorio
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Getting together to have some fun with other people’s songs, the folk-soul pairing made soft-rock magic out of silken harmonies
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The subtly nuanced period performance under Nicholas Cleobury was deliberately at odds with this often uncomfortable update by Mid Wales Opera
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ENO’s surefooted return for Leigh’s 2015 Gilbert and Sullivan production has a cast richly decked with boastful pirates and a proto-Wagnerian police chief
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The Croydon teenager proves she belongs in the big time, mixing bouncy R&B with darker shades of Lana Del Rey
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Yvonne Howard and James Rutherford brought steely power to the mystical chamber opera Sāvitri, though a fierce Planets suite lacked depth
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Newcomers Brian Jagde and Ksenia Dudnikova were superb in this revival of David McVicar’s striking production
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Legs are splayed and fists are pumped as the jubilant trio deliver a thunderous masterclass in stagecraft and showmanship
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Fired up and on form, the prolific Nebraskan delivered two hours of heart-on-sleeve vignettes – and a pop at Trump
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In an all-Spanish programme, soloist Mahan Esfahani negotiated the mood swings and disruptive rhythms of Francisco Coll’s new harpsichord concerto
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This revival of Jonathan Miller’s iconic New York mafiosi staging is as dramatic and complex as ever, even if the orchestra could usefully turn it down a little
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Bold video projections evoke an online forest where two youngsters find danger, in Opera North’s imaginative Engelbert Humperdinck revival
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