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5 months ago

Gramophone Classical Music Awards honour Simon Rattle for a second time; Raphaël Pichon’s Bach takes top prize ⊕⊕⊕

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The awards also included a lifetime achievement honour for Sir Thomas Allen and two gongs for Spanish violinist María Dueñas

The Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2025 were announced last night at a c…

6 months ago

Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, Verklärte Nacht, Die Jakobsleiter album review – a compelling and impressive collection ○

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(Berliner Philharmoniker, three CDs or BluRay)
Five works by the modernist composer, all taken from concerts given by Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic, include a magnificent performance of …

7 months ago

Chineke! Orchestra/Heyward review – kaleidoscopic concert combines energy and complexity ○

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Royal Albert Hall, London
The ethnically diverse orchestra played with vigour and spirit in a varied programme that included Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Shostakovich and Valerie Coleman

This concert was t…

9 months ago

Royal Festival Hall, London
Closing out a Simz-curated Meltdown festival, and with a host of star guests helping out, these songs gain extra nuance as orchestra and star meld perfectly together

Not man…

12 months ago

Anne Sebba's new book tells how the prisoners in the Orchestra of Auschwitz were spared the camp's worst fate but were haunted for life and many never played again.

The remarkable story of conductor Alma Rosé and the musicians who survived the Holocaust by performing amid horrific conditions

When 13-year-old Pearl Pufeles disembarked from the cattle car at Auschw…

13 months ago

She caused a sensation in 1966 when she joined the New York Phil and its 103 male musicians. Now the double bassist is the star of The Only Girl in the Orchestra, a documentary nominated for an Acade…

Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius album review – thoughtful and acutely sensitive to tiniest nuances ○

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Findon/Rice/Williams/Finnish RSO/Collon
(Ondine)
This is a very distinguished addition to the pantheon of Gerontius recordings, and Christine Rice is as good an Angel as any on disc since Janet Baker

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