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Beethoven versus birds: ECB shortlists designs for new euro banknotes ⊕
The public can comment on the shortlisted designs until Sept. 21, but the ECB gets to pick the winner.
37 days ago
Dazzling, delightful – and unfairly dismissed: Stephen Hough on the art of the transcription ⊕⊕
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Bach, Beethoven and Brahms did it. Liszt took it to such virtuosic heights that the entire genre almost collapsed. Ahead of his own album of transcriptions, the pianist and composer looks at the hist…
61 days ago
‘My first drag turn? As Karen Carpenter in hotpants!’ La Voix on swinger cruises, Strictly – and blazing into musicals ⊕
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From Drag Race to Eurovision to Strictly, La Voix is going stratospheric. And Chris Dennis, the man behind the crimson coiffure, is thrilled. He talks about his cruise ship highs, doing panto with Ci…
76 days ago
‘I will sing at the drop of a hat’: Jeff Goldblum’s honest playlist ⊕⊕
The actor and pianist swapped playing Beethoven for Deep Purple and knows what to put on at a party, but which of his movie themes has he put words to?
The first song I learned to play
When I was eig…
86 days ago
Beethoven: The Sonatas for Piano and Cello album review – Watkins and Bax have a shared impulse to deliver eloquence ⊕⊕
Paul Watkins/Alessio Bax
Signum Classics
Cellist Watkins’ career-long immersion in the composer pays dividends in his pairing with Alessio Bax’s unfussy virtuosity
As cellist of the Nash Ensemble and t…
2 months ago
Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for leek, potato and coconut curry | The new vegan ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
There is plenty of sunshine in this seductive, Sri Lankan-style potato curry that’s chock-full of evocative smells and flavours
I stitch myself up sometimes by planning on cooking something that’s nat…
3 months ago
Timothy Ridout: Alto Appassionato album review – engaging and smartly curated viola and piano programme ⊕⊕
Ridout/Ware
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Accomplished violist Ridout and pianist Jonathan Ware add bristling imagination and rich emotional layers to music by Franck, Fauré and more
Friends and colleagues working s…
‘We did a seance for Beethoven, to see what he thought’: the playful, pioneering life of field-recording maestro Annea Lockwood ⊕
The New Zealand composer burned pianos, sampled earthquakes and recorded Belfast’s peace walls. And at 86 is still invested in her life’s work: to appreciate the music in everyday sound
A broken uprig…
4 months ago
Can Bluey save classical music? Cartoon puppy’s all-encompassing soundtrack plays Bach and Beethoven to billions ⊕⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
In the hugely popular pre-school animation, composer Joff Bush references and rearranges classical tunes in all the right places – and never plays it for cheap laughs. Plus, the Wigmore Hall sees the…