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Classical home listening: Bach’s Goldberg Variations/Reimagined; Errollyn Wallen

Bach’s miraculous work is given outstanding expression by Vikingur Ólafsson, and a bold baroque treatment by Rachel Podger and friends

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‘An encyclopedia of how to think and dream on the piano’: Víkingur Ólafsson on Bach’s Goldberg Variations

The star Icelandic pianist is having an extraordinary year – recording, and now performing, Bach’s monumental work 88 times around the world. He explains why it gripped his imagination, and pushed him beyond the limit

The Guardian - UK

Fantasia: Works by Bach, Liszt, Berg and Busoni album review – Igor Levit reaches his final destination

Busoni’s hugely challenging Fantasia contrappuntistica is the climax of this two-cd set featuring works that balance musical freedom and formal rigour

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Víkingur Ólafsson review – Icelandic pianist brings magic and spontaneity to Bach

Performing the Goldberg Variations to a packed and tangibly engaged hall, this was a hypnotic reading that added up to considerably more than the sum of the work’s 32 parts.

The Guardian - UK

‘Joni Mitchell watched me sing one of her songs. I was horrified’: Rick Beato, the world’s best-loved music nerd

As energised by Taylor Swift as Schoenberg, Beato has earned millions of fans with his YouTube videos and become the man musicians seek out to discuss their craft

The Guardian - UK

Nina Simone is first black person to be Desert Island Discs’ most selected artist of year

Exclusive: Analysis shows change in guests and tastes help jazz musician keep classical music off top spot

The Guardian - UK

Gold vinyl for aliens may outlive humanity

Letter: This record of our existence is now gliding through space, way beyond our solar system – we may as well forget about it, writes Antony Barlow

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Duet with a doppelganger: Edinburgh fringe dances to a different tune

The festival’s Dance Base hosts eclectic performances involving a wondrous paper sculpture, an examination of duality and Bach reimagined

The Guardian - UK

Classical musicians are ‘clone-like’ these days, says Nigel Kennedy

Renowned violinist applauds the technical proficiency of young players although he finds new teaching methods a ‘brain and heart turn-off’

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Proms 30: Sinfonia of London/Wilson; Prom 31: Dialogues of the Carmelites; Oxford piano festival – review

The Albert Hall swooned to the sound of the Sinfonia of London and was silenced by Glyndebourne’s semi-staged Poulenc, while in Oxford you couldn’t move for great pianists

The Guardian - UK

At last, Hyperion recordings are streamable. We pick some of the standouts

The British classical label is now part of Universal Music and its superb catalogue is being made available to stream. From Hildegard of Bingen to Hough, Hewitt and Hamelin, we look over some of the greatest recordings now available

The Guardian - UK

Bachelorette Charity Lawson had a big hard time in the Big Easy

Charity takes the men to New Orleans as the group is whittled down from six to four.

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Hooked on classics? But if you want to learn to play, you’d better be posh

My state school taught me the value of Bach and Vivaldi. Today’s pupils aren’t so lucky

The Guardian - UK

In celebration of Wendy Carlos: composer, inventor, genre creator and pioneer

Without Wendy, music and technology might be very different today

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The week in classical: 74th Aldeburgh Festival; Werther – review

From thundering Thorvaldsdóttir to late-night Bach, it’s a standout year for Britten’s music festival, while at the ROH Jonas Kaufmann made a subdued Werther

Tom’s Guide

Meta's MusicGen AI makes high-quality music clips from text — here's how to try it

MusicGen is a new open-source AI tool from Meta that allows you to create free AI-generated audio clips with just a text prompt. Here's how it works.

The Guardian - UK

Webern: String Quartets; Bach: The Art of Fugue review – warm performances of enigmatic works

The pairing of Bach’s unfinished composition with Webern’s spare pieces for string quartet works well, although background noise takes the shine off

Louder

Procol Harum: The epic story of A Whiter Shade Of Pale

More than half a century ago Procol Harum recorded the unlikeliest, best-selling, most bitterly-contested drug anthem of all time

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Piano concert raises £2411 for Perth's Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance

Organised by Aberfeldy and District Rotary Club the concert was conceived by and performed at the town hall by Roger Wilson, a local musician

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Jennifer Wong: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

The comedian and food enthusiast shares what makes her laugh online. Unsurprisingly, there are two jokes about pasta

The Guardian - UK

Conquest by Nina Allan review – alien invasion, coding and Bach

A science fiction story from the 50s propels this brilliantly digressive exploration into art, ecology and the psychology of conspiracy theories

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New Stat Says Yr Fiancé Is Probs Being A Dirty Dog At Their Bach Party This Is Why I’m Single

New research says that a bunch of your fiancés are probs cheating during their bachelor and bachelorette parties. Yippeeeee!!!!

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The top 20 best Tenacious D songs ever

The 20 best songs by the greatest band on earth – these are Tenacious D’s most epic anthems

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Brahms By Arrangement Vol Two: Orchestrations by Robin Holloway review – dialogue with the past brings present benefits

The English composer pays reverent and inventive homage to music by the German grandee with the help of the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Mann

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Benjamin Grosvenor review – pianist’s virtuosity preferences power over pastel colours

An ambitious programme that ranged from Busoni’s Bach to Prokofiev confirmed why the pianist is a favourite here

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