Jan 23, 2013
Despite political trouble and budget constraints, Graham Vick’s ambitious production is off to a promising start
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Jan 22, 2013
Duetting with pianist Lars Vogt, the German violinist articulated Brahms’s Violin Sonatas as intimate, lyrical conversations
Jan 22, 2013
The French Ivorian drummer has virtuosity to spare but gives the impression of a team player leading his quartet from within
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Jan 21, 2013
LA’s rising rap star showed off a more caustic vocal style, worked the room and won over an excitable London audience
Jan 21, 2013
The Southbank Centre’s year-long festival of 20th-century music began with a wild account of Strauss’s ‘Salome’
Jan 20, 2013
The Irish singer mingled the sacred and the profane to riveting effect at this stripped-down gig
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Jan 20, 2013
Yannick Nézet-Séguin demonstrated why he may just be the most compelling, accomplished conductor of his generation
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Jan 20, 2013
The opera looks good, sounds overwhelming and over it all towers the Minotaur of John Tomlinson, a superhuman presence
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Jan 18, 2013
As the Southbank Centre opens a year-long festival of 20th-century classical music, professor Marcus du Sautoy discusses the link between music and mathematics
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Jan 18, 2013
Alex Ross, whose book inspired ‘The Rest is Noise’ festival, talks about how war changed Europe’s musical landscape
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Jan 18, 2013
Thinking differently is what makes David Bowie stand out in the noisy world that saw the collapse of HMV
Jan 18, 2013
The Brazilian has notched up 16 platinum records as artist, producer or arranger, but ‘Zarathustra’ remains his attention-grabber
Jan 17, 2013
Ronald Samm uses his physique powerfully and has all the notes in Opera North’s 1940s-set production
Jan 16, 2013
The first new staging of one of Hans Werner Henze’s operas since his death is a fitting homage
Jan 16, 2013
The finest performances of piano music from a composer with a gift for jewel-like perfectionism
Jan 14, 2013
The latest R&B sensation from the US combined romantic blandishments with artistic ambition
Jan 14, 2013
Beethoven played on a guitar and a reconceived ‘Othello’ were among the works performed over a weekend of blurred boundaries
Jan 14, 2013
Benjamin Grosvenor’s piano-playing raised Britten’s Piano Concerto to a level the composer himself would have admired
Jan 14, 2013
Austrian composer H.K. Gruber introduced his young charges to ‘Frankenstein!!’ and led them on a whistle-stop tour of his music
Jan 13, 2013
Goldings’ organ trio balanced a warm heart with percussive bite, and sounded terrific
The survival of a master’s voice
Thinking differently is what makes David Bowie stand out in the noisy world that saw the collapse of HMV