As the Bayreuth festival turns 150, we look at the composer’s huge and enduring influence, and wonder what might have happened to classical music in his absence?
One hundred and fifty years ago this s…
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Which awards were founded by the late Kanya King? The Saturday quiz ⊖
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From Countdown and Five Go Mad in Dorset to Barbie and White Noise, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
1 What is the UK’s single most dispensed medicine?
2 Fólkvangr was the alternative destina…
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…
4 months ago
Joseph Nolan: The Complete Alkan Organ Works, Vol 1 album review – seething with quasi-orchestral colour ⊕
(Signum)
From operatic frenzy in one moment to pianissimo whisper the next, Nolan does exhilarating justice to an extraordinary but little known repertoire
Charles-Valentin Alkan was undoubtedly one of…
5 months ago
Tamás Vásáry obituary ⊕
Conductor and pianist highly regarded for his elegant interpretations of Chopin and Liszt
The Hungarian pianist Tamás Vásáry, who has died aged 92, was highly regarded for his elegance and clarity of …
10 months ago
The Kanneh-Masons: River of Music album review – a fond familial affair ○
(Decca)
Welsh folk songs and an original composition join Liszt, Chopin, Handel and Elgar in a misty-eyed first half, before a more monochrome performance of Schubert’s Trout Quintet
The second recordi…
11 months ago
The Ambassador Auditorium Recitals album review – a joyful reminder of the richness of Claudio Arrau ○
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Claudio Arrau
(First Hand Records)
Three recitals given by the Chilean pianist in the 70s and 80s are a feast of lucid and emphatic playing that hasn’t dated in the slightest
Those of us who were lucky …
14 months ago
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3 album review – hear the performance that made Yunchan Lim a star ○
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Yunchan Lim/Fort Worth SO/Alsop
(Decca)
The prodigious South Korean talent won 2022’s Van Cliburn piano competition with this performance; his version deserves a place alongside Argerich and Rachmanin…
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