The composer himself never matched the joy, optimism and boldness of his first teenage symphony, as the chill of Stalinism settled on his music
This week we mark two extraordinary centenaries. Sir Dav…
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Why has one of the world’s great conductors been shown the door? ⊕⊕
Andris Nelsons is to leave the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The shock decision is strongly opposed by the players. What is going on, and what, should a music director’s role be? Plus: why Timothee Chal…
4 months ago
LPO/Jurowski review – Mahler’s 10th is full of colour, and the composer’s pain, in Barshai’s completion ⊕
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Royal Festival Hall, London
Rudolf Barshai’s audacious completion of Marhler’s final unfinished symphony slathers on the colour, and its diverse timbral details came over loud and clear thanks to the …
BBCNOW/Bancroft/Gerhardt review – intriguing connections, magic and melancholy beauty ⊕⊕
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Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
An imaginatively programmed concert featured Anders Hillborg alongside Sibelius and Shostakovich – with Alban Gerhardt the impeccable soloist in the latter’s second cello conce…
5 months ago
Even Happy Birthday has a dark side: my quest to tell the history of the world in 50 pieces of music ⊕⊕
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The Nazis adopted Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Happy Birthday hides a tale of corporate greed. And Putin uses Shostakovich’s Leningrad symphony as a call to arms. That’s why I put them in my soundtrack to…
9 months ago
Chineke! Orchestra/Heyward review – kaleidoscopic concert combines energy and complexity ○
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…
Prosecutors Seek to Nationalize Russia’s Oldest Music Publisher ○
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Founded in 1918, Muzyka grew into a Soviet-era monopoly and remains the publisher of works by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich.
10 months ago
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3; Two Scherzos album review – deft execution of the Russian’s early exuberance ○
BBC Philharmonic/John Storgårds/Hallé Choir
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Capturing the momentum of two of Shostakovich’s first Soviet-era symphonies, this performance adds a pair of scherzos that pre-date even them
If the…
13 months ago
‘Music is never fixed in me’ … cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason on surviving a ‘volcano of racism’ ○
A remark about Rule, Britannia! led to uproar but the star musician is concentrating on the joy and power of classical music. As his first book is published, he talks to Charlotte Higgins
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BBC announces 2025 Proms lineup – including first female-fronted Last Night ○
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The 86 concerts this summer will include anniversary celebrations of Shostakovich, Ravel and Boulez, a Traitors-themed Prom presented by Claudia Winkleman – and a record number of female conductors
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