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Classical music

11 July 2024

  • Immaculate playing … Dover Quartet.

    Beethoven: Complete String Quartets album review – up there with the best

  • Better resolution Yannick Nézet-Séguin Press publicity portrait Credit: George Etheredge

    Brahms: The Symphonies album review – less is more for Nézet-Séguin and the COE

10 July 2024

  • Dominic Gwynn with the Wingfield organ, one of the three Tudor organs he reconstructed from 16th-century soundboards found in Suffolk

    Other lives
    Dominic Gwynn obituary

    Other lives: Organ-builder who made an important contribution to his craft and to early music
  • Stephanie Lamprea and the Hebrides Ensemble perform Pierrot Lunaire.

    Hebrides Ensemble/Lamprea review – Schoenberg’s Pierrot is pushed to extremes

    Pierrot Lunaire was at the centre of this concert, with Stephanie Lamprea’s performance taking the work to the edge of hysteria. Newer music by Electra Perivolaris and Helen Grime continued the Pierrot theme
  • Cypress Hill’s cartoon band members with Homer Simpson in the Homerpalooza episode of The Simpsons from 1996

    Hip-hop band Cypress Hill makes 1996 Simpsons joke come true

    London Symphony Orchestra to play Black Sunday album at Royal Albert Hall decades after featuring on TV show

8 July 2024

  • NewYear by Birmingham Opera Company at the Dream Tent.

    New Year review – Blake’s 7, redemption and rap as Birmingham Opera Company turn to Tippett

    This staging of Michael Tippett’s complex opera, whose story of impoverished 80s Britain takes in sci-fi, street slang and electric guitar, is a remarkable feat.
  • L to R Hilary Summers as Disinganno, Hilary Cronin as Piacere and Anna Dennis as Bellezza . Il Trionfo e del disinganno at Buxton International Festival, July 2024

    Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno review – imaginative staging transforms Handel’s oratorio

    Its sermonising libretto was never meant to be this much fun, but in Jacopo Spirei’s characterful production, with Christian Curnyn conducting, Hilary Cronin’s delightfully truculent Pleasure emerges as the moral heart of the piece
  • Pushing the boundaries … Geoffrey Paterson.

    London Sinfonietta/Paterson review – bespoke instruments and microtones in all-Mexican programme

    The Sinfonietta played three pieces by innovative composer Julián Carrillo, as well as an exhilarating performance of a work by the oft-overlooked Silvestre Revueltas

7 July 2024

  • Megan Burslem

    Three things
    Three things with ABC Classic’s Megan Burslem: ‘My earplugs are handy for gigs and when a dad sneezes’

    In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the violist and radio host tells us about her cheap, squishy ear accessories – and why she treasures her teenage diaries
  • Dash and vocal glamour … Roman Arndt as Ernani.

    Ernani review – sterling singing triumphs over Verdi’s implausible plot

    Shifted from 16th-century Spain to a present-day oligarchy by director Jamie Manton, the titular aristocrat turned bandit is hell bent on love and revenge
  • Jakub Jozef Orlinski at Warner Music Uk, South Kensington, London, for Q&A New Review, 26/06/2024. Sophia Evans for The Observer

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński: ‘Breakdancing feeds into my performances – music dictates the way you move on stage’

    The singer on his high voice, his forthcoming Proms debut and his other lives – as a breakdancer, skateboard champion and Vogue model

6 July 2024

  • Simon Tedeschi and Loribelle Spirovski

    The moment I knew
    The moment I knew: we could barely make eye contact because of the chemistry radiating between us

    Classical pianist Simon Tedeschi established an online rapport with artist Loribelle Spirovski. But could it transcend an awkward start and a social faux pas?
  • Lucy Crowe as Tytania and Richard Burkhard as Bottom

    The week in classical: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Pekka Kuusisto & Norwegian Chamber Orchestra: DSCH; Camerata RCO – review

    A top cast and young local chorus share the honours in Netia Jones’s stylish new Britten staging; Finnish live-wire Pekka Kuusisto and friends conjure Shostakovich in the dark. Plus, Bruckner’s 6th for 10 players…
  • Héloïse Werner, centre, recording Close-ups.

    Home listening
    Héloïse Werner: Close-ups review – from lip-smacking to lyrical

    No sound is left unturned as the soprano-composer-musician and friends range from Barbara Strozzi to Errollyn Wallen and Werner’s own work

4 July 2024

  • To the moon … The Excursions of Mr Brouček at the Rudolfinum, Prague.

    Janáček: The Excursions of Mr Brouček album review – eccentric opera has sparkle and muscle

  • Elim Chan, press photo

    Proms star Elim Chan: ‘Being who you are is powerful. Not all orchestras can take it’

  • James Loughran<br>Scottish conductor James Loughran, circa 1965. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)

    James Loughran obituary

  • Mishka Rushdie Momen.

    Mishka Rushdie Momen: Reformation album review – beguiling and beautiful performances make the past present

3 July 2024

  • Much is told, little shown … Gweneth Ann Rand as Tigrana in Edgar.

    Edgar review – Puccini was right, his biggest flop is a dud

    The composer himself wrote off his second opera. In this OHP semi-staging, there are sumptuous musical moments but the major plot problems are baked in

1 July 2024

  • People seemed to be conscious, judging from strawberries consumed … Glastonbury 2024.

    I’ll take your brain to another dimension … my classical DJ set at Glastonbury

    Georgia Mann is usually to be found at BBC Broadcasting House presenting Radio 3’s Essential Classics. Why was she in a field in Glastonbury this weekend, and did she get the festival crowd moving?
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