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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From the devil’s violinist to devil’s horns - why classical and heavy metal are a natural pairing ⊕⊕
With ear-splitting excess, flamboyant virtuosity and a talent for transgression, where classical music has led, metal has followed. Let’s hope the Philharmonia’s Metal Orchestrated concert turns it u…
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Harnoncourt: Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schumann album review – revelatory readings from the late revolutionary ⊕
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This 1999 live recording captures the late conductor’s radical ear in bracing Mendelssohn, gossamer Wagner and a luminous Liebestod – from Violeta U…
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From the sacred to the profane: the Wagners, Bayreuth and Parsifal ○
Wagner’s final opera comes to Glyndebourne this week. Why will the composer and his wife be turning in their graves? Michael Downes looks at the family’s attempts to keep Parsifal in Bayreuth
When Gly…
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