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17 days ago

Masterpiece, fridge magnet, phone case … opera: how Hokusai’s The Great Wave hit the stage ⊕⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

He survived a stroke, a lightning strike, a fire – and created one of the world’s most recognisable images. Now the Japanese artist’s ‘wild, fascinating’ life has inspired an opera

Opera has inspired …

42 days ago

In the week that we mourn the death of the Guardian’s long-serving classical music critic, composers, performers, colleagues and others who knew and worked with him pay tribute to a writer whose pass…

43 days ago

Igor Stravinsky: Late Works album review – kudos to Reuss for bringing this spellbinding music to life ⊕⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Daniel Reuss/Noord Nederlands Orkest/Cappella Amsterdam
(Pentatone)
Noord Nederlands Orkest and Cappella Amsterdam breathe colour and light into work from the composer’s most austere period

In his later…

48 days ago

BBCNOW/Bancroft/Gerhardt review – intriguing connections, magic and melancholy beauty ⊕⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

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…

74 days ago

‘Lunch could last all day – and night’: inside Coco Chanel’s sun-kissed sanctum for art’s superstars ⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The French fashion designer’s lavish Mediterranean villa was frequented by everyone from Dalí to Garbo to Stravinsky to Churchill. It has now been lovingly restored – with a thrillingly bolstered lib…

3 months ago

Choreographers hear, somehow, a larger heartbeat; it’s fascinating and revelatory to have them reinterpret your compositions, writes the US musician, ahead of a triple bill featuring his music coming…

5 months ago

The choreographer has paired the tragedies of Oedipus Rex and Antigone in a monumental double bill, Jocasta’s Line, which refuses to spoon-feed audiences

When Stravinsky composed Oedipus Rex in 1927, …

6 months ago

From Stravinsky to Donna Summer, the story of connections that enriched music – in both directions

One of many things I did not expect to learn in this book is that the BBC benefited from Nazi technol…

8 months ago

Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée to be performed for first time, replacing classics by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky after fundraising in London

One of the “most English of ballets” will be perform…

Faust/Neuberger/Les Siècles/Roth
(Harmonia Mundi)
These fresh and original concertos revealed the full power of Ligeti’s new musical language; Isabelle Faust and Jean-Frederic Neuburger give accomplis…

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