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The Seven Deadly Sins review – LPO play Brecht and Weill with bite and swing

Danielle de Niese took on twinned roles of dancer and singer Anna with great style, the evening introduced by João Barradas’s fiery accordion

The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2024

Dance Reimagined review – LPO and Wayne McGregor are a dream team, but AI lets them down

Tonight’s Tania León premiere and reconceptualised Szymanowski ballet made a heady combination, with no need for technical trickery

The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2024

English National Opera cuts risk ‘killing off of art form’, warn prominent music directors

Former ENO conductors Edward Gardner, Sir Mark Elder and the Royal Opera House’s Sir Antonio Pappano said cuts would make company ‘an empty shell of its former self’

The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2023

The Damnation of Faust review – Berlioz’s exemplary evocations of heaven and hell

Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic offered a timely reminder of Berlioz’s astonishing gifts as a choral and orchestral writer

The Guardian - UK · Feb 6, 2023

LPO/Gardner review – magical outing for Tippett’s ‘unplayable’ piano concerto

Coleridge-Taylor’s stately, long-lost Solemn Prelude and a crisp, exploratory interpretation of Elgar’s first symphony completed a trio of English compositions

The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2023

Avalon Regal Theater: What’s up with old movie palace with glorious past?

Despite a history of nearly a century of cultural significance, the theater has sat mostly empty since 2003.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 19, 2023

Quirky, revelatory, intimate … the best classical releases of 2022

From live Tippett, locked-down Debussy and luminous Charles Koechlin to dazzling Szymanowski and dextrous Beethoven, we pick the outstanding releases of the past 12 months

The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2022

The week in classical: It’s a Wonderful Life; A Child of Our Time; IMS Prussia Cove – review

ENO’s warm-hearted production of Jake Heggie’s operatic take on the classic Frank Capra film is full of poignant ironies

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2022

A Child of our Time/Serenade to Music, LPO/Gardner at the Royal Festival Hall concert review - inspired

These two pieces are rarely played together but it turned out to work perfectly

Evening Standard · Nov 28, 2022

The Midsummer Marriage review – Tippett’s heady mix has the recording it deserves

Gardner captures perfectly the overflowing exuberance of Tippett’s score, with Toby Spence and Jennifer France an ideal Jack and Bella

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2022