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  • Beatrice Harrison, cellist, with microphone

    The spy, the songbird and the sham that wasn’t
    How?I restored broadcasting history

  • Royal visit to the Royal Opera House<br>Sir Antonio Pappano at a special Gala performance for him at the Royal Opera House in London in tribute to out-going music director. Picture date: Thursday May 16, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story ROYAL King. Photo credit should read: Isabel Infantes/PA Wire

    Review
    Antonio Pappano Gala ? farewell concert celebrates the best thing that has happened to the Royal Opera

    Singers including Jonas Kaufmann joined newer vocal stars such as Aigul Akhmetshina to honour the much loved music director on an evening that ended with the royal seal of approval
  • Press shot of Jonny Greenwood, he has his fingers in his ears. Behind him are large pink/purple flowers on a bush.

    ‘I’m still arsing around on instruments like when I was a kid’
    Jonny Greenwood

    The Radiohead guitarist changed rock music, then conquered the world of soundtracks. But can he revolutionise the church organ with an eight-hour composition?
  • Members of the Russian radical feminist group 'Pussy Riot' stage a protest performance in Red Square in Moscow<br>Members of the Russian radical feminist group 'Pussy Riot' sing a song at the so-called Lobnoye Mesto (Forehead Place), long before used for announcing Russian tsars' decrees and occasionally for carrying out public executions, in Red Square in Moscow January 20, 2012. Eight activists, who were later detained by police, staged a performance to protest against the policies conducted by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY)

    Conor Mitchell:
    ‘Russian protest punk and symphonies might seem worlds apart. But the idea is the same: weaponise your art’

  • Tradition … the band of the Durham Miners Association.

    I’ve got the Hovis ad in one ear and the Battle of Orgreave in the other
    My?obsession with brass bands

  • Breathtaking … Yunchan Lim.

    Album of the week
    Yunchan Lim: Chopin: Etudes Op 10 & Op 25 ? prodigiously gifted young pianist confirms he’s something special

  • OA Tales of Hoffman<br>Tales of Hoffman; Opera Australia; Dress Rehearsal; July 2023

    News
    Royal Ballet and Opera announces ambitious new season ? and name change

Live reviews

  • Fatma Said sings on stage with pianist Joseph Middleton backing her at a grand piano

    Fatma Said/Joseph Middleton review ? expressive storytelling

  • Sir John Tomlinson (Milton) in States of Innocence BF24 c. Ian Winters

    States of Innocence review ? ambitious Milton opera leaves us in the dark

  • Riot Symphony by Conor Mitchell at Ulster Hall.

    The?week in classical: Riot Symphony; L’Olimpiade; LSO/Tilson Thomas review ? humanity and hope

  • Images embargoed until 1700 on 16th May 2024<br>Dmitry Cheblykov (Escamillo) in Carmen by Bizet @ Glyndebourne. Conducted by Robin Ticciati. Directed by Diane Paulus. Set Designer Riccardo Hernández. Costume Designer Evie Gurney. Choreographer Jasmin Vardimon. Lighting Designer Malcolm Rippeth. (Opening-16-05-2024) ©Tristram Kenton 05-24 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Carmen review ? Chaieb beguiles as the tragic heroine in uneven production

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Album reviews

  • Anthony Payne Press publicity portrait supplied by PR Credit: Jane Manning

    Payne: Visions and Journeys album review ? British composer steps out of Elgar’s shadows

  • Security, warmth and refinement … Mark Elder conducts the Hallé.

    Elgar: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 album review ? warmth, refinement and conviction

  • Balanced and efficient … Antonello Manacorda and Kammerakademie Potsdam.

    Beethoven: Complete Symphonies album review ? perfectly adequate but perfectly forgettable

  • Silvery sound … Barbara Hannigan.

    Messiaen: Poemes pour Mi; Chants de Terre et de Ciel album review ? beguiling, soft-edged intimacy

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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 Tar

  • Christian Thielemann

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

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  • Trumpet soloist Alison Balsom performed with the L.A. Philharmonic, conducted by Bramwell Tovey, on his "Songs of the Paradise Saloon," at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Nov. 10, 2013. (Photo by Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

    Alison Balsom
    ‘This is the most important piece written for the trumpet in 200 years’

  • 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

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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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