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Women and the Piano album review – Tomes brings her poetic instincts to a rewarding compilation

Tomes (Hyperion) From Marianne Martines – taught by the family lodger, Haydn, to Teresa Carreño who played for Lincoln, there’s names new and old in this fascinating and appealing collection

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8

The secret of Mozart’s genius unlocked – has a teenager succeeded where generations of musicologists have failed?

US student Linus Chen-Plotkin has analysed music by four canonical composers looking for patterns. Turns out Mozart’s music moves in the least predictable way

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16

John McCabe: Symphonies 2 & 3 and Cello Concerto album review – writing of enormous scope and colour

The pianist and composer, who died in 2015, deserves a wider audience for the edgy, lucid soundworld of his compositions

The Guardian - UK · Jul 24

“Want to scare people these days? Forget about Satan and drugs. Bring on the evolutionary biologist”: Nightwish were accused of seeking to shock by working with Richard Dawkins. Instead they explored the poetry of science

Endless Forms Most Beautiful started with a handwritten letter and resulted in an extraordinary, inspiring concept album – plus the professor’s first-ever prog performance at Wembley Arena

Metal Hammer · Feb 26, 2025

Argerich/Maisky/Ivanov review – legendary pianist brings her irrepressible brilliance to chamber music programme

Martha Argerich joined with Mischa Maisky and Yossif Ivanov to perform music by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Schubert, but it was her solo Bach that was a special evening’s particular highlight

The Guardian - UK · Feb 7, 2025

LPO/Jurowski review – a fervent treatment of two works rich in intensity

Haydn’s Mass in Time of War met John Adams’s elegy for victims of 9/11 in this dramatic concert, superbly controlled by Vladimir Jurowski

The Guardian - UK · Jan 19, 2025

Takács Quartet review – a superlative performance in which the music never sits still

Britten’s second string quartet was framed by forward-looking works by Haydn and Beethoven with each work sounding fresh in an entrancing concert

The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2024

What are you Haydn? The hoaxers who fooled the classical music world

One wrote six sonatas and claimed they were by Haydn. Another used a ghostwriter to write his symphony – and pretended to be deaf. So how did they manage to hoodwink the experts?

The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2024

The Block’s Ricky & Haydn Claim ‘Extreme Pressure’ Pushed Them To Fire Their Builder In Shock Move

“The Block isn’t your normal building site.”

Pedestrian.tv · Aug 29, 2024

The Block 2024: Every Single Room Reveal & The Results In One Place

Kylie did NOT react well.

Pedestrian.tv · Aug 19, 2024