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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

The Guardian - UK

Prom 69: Pygmalion/Pichon review – fascinating and moving take on Mozart’s Requiem

Raphaël Pichon interweaves Mozart’s unfinished masterpiece with the composer’s shorter vocal and choral meditations on mortality eliciting playing and singing of terrific immediacy

The Guardian - UK

Springsteen, Dolly Parton and the Killers: songs presidential candidates think make them look good

From paranoia-tinged GOP favorite Mr Brightside to a Mozart banger, you can learn a lot from music a person pretends to like

The Guardian - US

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Herb Alpert on 80 years in music: ‘Mozart, Thelonious Monk ... all of us have the same 12 notes’

The trumpeter and co-founder of A&M Records answers your questions on writing a Bond theme, selling 72m albums and signing Janet Jackson, Karen Carpenter and the ‘appalling’ Sex Pistols

The Guardian - UK

Music may reduce babies’ pain during jabs or heel-prick tests, study suggests

Newborns suffered less pain during heel-prick blood tests if they heard a Mozart lullaby, researchers report

The Guardian - UK

Prom 47 at Royal Albert Hall review: Les Siècles under Francois-Xavier Roth give a life-enhancing performance

The avant-garde composer György Ligeti’s progressive work shines at the Proms

Evening Standard

From Titanic to American Sniper: the biggest lies in fact-based movies

Controversy over debunked elements of Oscar-winning drama The Blind Side won’t be the first time a film based on a true story has taken liberties with the truth

The Guardian - US

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Mozart Piano Quartets review – rising soloists combine elegance and eloquence

Violinist Francesca Dego, violist Timothy Ridout, cellist Laura van der Heijden and pianist Federico Colli combine character and grace in Mozart’s innovative quartets

The Guardian - UK

Big program for Canberra Symphony's new season

The Canberra Times

Opera world split as director reinventions dominate Europe while US, Italy more muted

The opera world is split in two: Some European productions reinvent works in ways composers never imagined, and traditional stagings favored in the U.S. are condemned by cognoscenti

The Independent UK

Salzburg Festival nearly sold out while others in classical music struggle to regain audience

While many classical music institutions are struggling to regain audience, the Salzburg Festival in Mozart's hometown is on track to draw people from over 75 nations to opera, concerts and drama

The Independent UK

“It’s like you’re looking at Mozart and you’re like, ‘I’m gonna improvise over this part.’ No. That’s how those songs should be performed”: John 5 shares his approach to learning Mötley Crüe’s back catalog

The band's new guitarist said he wanted to show the songs ultimate respect – but has been given permission to go “berserk” on the fretboard every now and then

Guitar World

Cecilia Bartoli veers into opera management while still singing at 57

Still singing at age 57, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli has branched into opera management

The Independent UK

The week in classical: Prom 19: SCO/ Emelyanychev; Prom 22: BBC NOW/ Bancroft; Prom 24: BSO/ Karabits – review

A Victorian warhorse springs into life under the baton of Maxim Emelyanychev; Isata Kanneh-Mason makes fiendish Prokofiev look easy; and German horn virtuoso Felix Klieser sets an example to all

The Guardian - UK

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The Guardian - UK

Mick Csáky obituary

Documentary-maker whose subjects ranged from Mozart to a cure for heroin addiction administered by Buddhist monks

The Guardian - UK

‘My life is beautiful’: Felix Klieser, who plays the horn with his toes, on making his Proms debut

The German musician refused to let being born without arms stop him from becoming a horn virtuoso. As he prepares for the Royal Albert Hall concerts, he explains why the real disability is imagining that there are limits

The Guardian - UK

‘Mozart didn’t have explosions’: Simon Mayo on how his book Itch became an opera

With an aria to the periodic table and a hero dying of radiation sickness, the broadcaster’s YA novel has been transformed into an exposive operatic thriller

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: RLPO/ Hindoyan; Maxwell Quartet and Alasdair Beatson; The Marriage of Figaro – review

In Latin party mood, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and charismatic chief conductor Domingo Hindoyan bid farewell to their percussionist of 40 years. Plus, a James MacMillan fanfare and Figaro at its finest

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The Guardian - UK

Mao Fujita review – fresh and elegant Mozart from young Japanese star

In the first of five recitals of Mozart piano works the 24-year-old pianist found proportion and purpose to music that clearly means a great deal to him

Daily Mirror

Baileys alternative slashed to £11.19 in Amazon Prime Day Lightning Deal

"Purchased for wife . She says it’s nearly as nice as chocolate Baileys. Cheaper by £6 . That’s handy!"

The Guardian - UK

Ingrid Haebler obituary

Quintessentially Viennese pianist who brought delicacy and charm to her performances of Mozart and Schubert

PC Gamer

Psychonauts creator Tim Schafer says he's never read anything that was 'meaningful, important or worthwhile' created by AI

While he's impressed by the tech, he's yet to be moved by it.

Tom’s Guide

7 top new movies to watch this week on Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus and more (June 12-18)

This week's new movies include Extraction 2 and a Stan Lee documentary, while Hulu and Peacock also get new films.

The Guardian - UK

‘Why is Bridgerton’s race twisting acceptable?’ The real problem with the show’s Black fantasy

Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte and its imitators have been praised for bringing diversity to the very white world of historical drama. But could these Black fantasies actually be dangerous?

The Guardian - UK

Così fan tutte review – probing and insightful staging is wonderfully conducted by Karabits

Director Martin Lloyd-Evans prises open Mozart’s opera’s emotional complexity in a production that might be set in traditional dress but engages with today’s concerns

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