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The week in classical: Cavalleria rusticana/ Pagliacci; OAE/ Suzuki: Christmas Oratorio; The Sixteen: Messiah – review

Hot-blooded double bill Cav and Pag hits home in a fine Royal Opera revival, while the OAE and the Sixteen thrill in seasonal Bach and Handel. Plus, the human cost of ENO’s move to Manchester

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Solomon’s Knot at Wigmore Hall review: a first-rate performance from the Baroque collective? Knot half

Performed from memory, the excellent collective brought precision, skill and spontaneity to this programme of Bach's works

Evening Standard

Five of the best science fiction and fantasy books of 2023

From the ocean bed to the stars and the multiverse, five novels to transport you

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The Bachelors Recap: Send Everyone Home ‘Cos One Bachie Has Put All His Eggs In One Basket

Much like a Christmas gift you didn’t ask for (nor want), the new season of The Bachelors Australia will once again feature three leading men.

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“The solos are so perfectly composed... they remind me of what Bach would do if he had a Les Paul, a Marshall, and a space alien costume”: Paul Gilbert explains why he loves Ace Frehley’s playing

The shred guru picks out a recording of the band’s “infallible feedback magic” as his highlight of the hard-rock icons’ remarkable 50-year run

Guitar World

LIFEM opening gala review – a showstopping harpischord, a musical chicken and Dowland’s tears

The annual festival of early music opened with a lively and virtuosic performance by Jane Chapman of works ranging from Bach and Byrd to Roxanna Panufnik

The Guardian - UK

Piotr Anderszewski review – raw and astonishing, Beethoven is transformed

The Polish pianist is an understated presence but in his hands, a programme that also included Bach, Webern and Szymanowski, was muscular and full of ferocious energy amid meticulous playing

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Goldbergs Reimagined review – Bach’s masterpiece takes flight with wind and strings

Chad Kelly’s reworking for violinist Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque’s introduced a joyful lightness, delicate virtuosity and haunting beauty to the iconic keyboard work

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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

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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.

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‘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

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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

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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

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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’

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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

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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

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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

MusicRadar

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

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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.

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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

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