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From shiveringly vivid Mahler to the eclectic Hermes Experiment: our top classical recordings of 2025 ⊕⊕
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Opera may be conspicuous by its absence, but the brilliance of Berlin Philharmonic’s Schoenberg and the exceptional South Korean Yunchan Lim gave us plenty to sink our teeth into this year
The survey…
‘Two more broomsticks please!’ Was Robin Blades the greatest percussionist ever? ⊕⊕
He played china mugs, bells, rattles and car horns for everyone from Alfred Hitchcock to Benjamin Britten – and once got Laurence Olivier to bang a broomstick. We go behind the scenes of a Radio 3 ce…
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 …
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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…
9 months ago
Adès, Leith, Marsey: Orchestral Works album review – an impressive collection marks a productive association ○
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This brings together new works of his own and by composers he admires that Thomas Adès has conducted at Bridgewater Hall during his residency with the Hallé
Since 2023 Thom…
‘It is impossible to recall him without smiling’: Simon Rattle on Alfred Brendel ○
The conductor first heard Brendel as a schoolboy. He was to become his cherished friend, inspirational collaborator and valued mentor for many decades. Simon Rattle remembers the great pianist’s wi…
10 months ago
‘I don’t have a relationship with my face’: Judi Dench models for a live sculpture ○
To raise money for lymphoedema research, the actor sat before an audience for artist Frances Segelman, who admired her youthful, ‘pixie-like’ face while rendering it in clay
It began as a blob: a 12kg…
15 months ago
From exquisite Elgar to razor-sharp Cage: our classical recordings of the year ○
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A piano prodigy burst onto the scene, studio opera recordings were few and far between – and the year’s most rewarding discs were the ones that ventured beyond the mainstream
Most end-of-year lists wi…
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