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Barry Tuckwell, revered horn virtuoso, has died

Classical Music News

Friday, January 17, 2020

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Born March 5, 1931; died January 16, 2020

Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes UK Album Chart history by entering the Top 10

Classical Music News

Friday, January 17, 2020

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Kanneh-Mason becomes the first cellist in the history of the UK Official Album Chart to break into the Top 10 and the first British classical instrumentalist in 30 years

Alan Gilbert named Royal Swedish Opera Music Director

Classical Music News

Thursday, January 16, 2020

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American conductor makes a return to Stockholm

Andris Nelsons interview: ‘It’s like learning to talk, except with our hands … only gradually can we conductors consciously express what we want to say’

Features

Thursday, January 16, 2020

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Whether he’s conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Bruckner or the Vienna Philharmonic in Beethoven, Andris Nelsons is mindful of the profound, indefinable connection between a conductor and his musicians, he tells Peter Quantrill

Hänssler Classic signs 19-year-old pianist Tom Borrow

Classical Music News

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

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Israeli pianist begins partnership with album of Franck, Rachmaninov, Chopin and Liszt

The humanity behind the music-making

Blogs

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

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Looking ahead to Beethoven year, and remembering Mariss Jansons and Stephen Cleobury

Video of the day: Stephen Hough and the Castalian String Quartet live at Wigmore Hall

Features

Monday, January 13, 2020

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Brahms's Piano Quintet, performed by Stephen Hough and the Castalian String Quartet

Sheku Kanneh-Mason interview: ‘Just playing beautifully is kind of boring. I want to play with as much character as possible’

Features

Monday, January 13, 2020

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At just 20 years old Sheku Kanneh-Mason takes inspiration from the great cellists of the distant past – and his models for Elgar’s Cello Concerto are no exception, finds Richard Bratby

Louise Alder: The Russian Connection

Podcasts

Friday, January 10, 2020

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The English soprano on the fascinating story behind her new Chandos album

Recording the choral works of William Mathias

Blogs

Friday, January 10, 2020

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Graham Walker, Director of St John's Voice, St John's College, Cambridge, on the beauty of William Mathias's choral music

Vladimir Horowitz: Our Contemporary

Features

Friday, January 10, 2020

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Michelle Assay celebrates the life and career of the controversial American pianist 30 years after his death – and makes a case for his relevance today

Beethoven the Modern

Blogs

Thursday, January 9, 2020

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Beethoven’s legendary Academy events presented new music for an audience that was hungry for novelty. Here, conductor François-Xavier Roth explains how he has been inspired by the spirit of these concerts – and of the great composer himself – in programming his concert at London’s Southbank Centre on February 21 with pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln