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Violin virtuoso joins ‘real battle’ to save classical music from UK funding cuts

Soloist Nicola Benedetti has added her voice to those speaking up for a genre now facing severe financial constraints

The Guardian - UK

Nathalie Stutzmann, contralto now conductor, to debut at Met

Nathalie Stutzmann gave up a quarter-century career as a contralto to become a conductor

The Independent UK

The week in classical: Blue; Bach: Mass in B Minor – review

A potent US tale of Black lives hits home with fervour and humanity at ENO. Plus shock and roar from John Eliot Gardiner at 80

The Guardian - UK

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The arts are in a sorry state at a time when we need them most

Letters: Readers lament the damage to culture resulting from the government cutting funding

The Guardian - UK

Simon Rattle is right: Britain is becoming a cultural desert – and that’s a political choice

The arts and classical music say much about us as a country. Labour should fight for their place in our national life, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Simon Rattle: UK classical music is fighting for life after ‘swingeing’ funding cuts

The outgoing director of the London Symphony Orchestra says that cuts by Arts Council England and the BBC risk destroying the entire sector

The Guardian - UK

BBC Singers/LSO review – music, and words, of power as Rattle protests vandalism of UK’s musical life

Superbly executed Mahler was given fire by the addition of Poulenc’s work from the just saved BBC Singers – and a fierce attack on arts funding by the conductor

The Guardian - UK

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Leading German magazine declares UK a nation on life support

The country ‘has dialed 999 and is waiting in vain for the paramedics to show up’ says the title

Evening Standard

LSO director Simon Rattle speaks out about ‘desperate’ situation for UK classical music

BBC Singers are under pressure amid budget cuts

The Independent UK

Female conductors to open and close BBC Proms for first time

Dalia Stasevska and Marin Alsop among 10 women conducting in 2023 season as festival moves towards gender equality

The Guardian - UK

Simon Rattle says Arts Council cuts are doing ‘real violence’ to British music

They are ‘an act of cultural vandalism’ says the famous conductor

Evening Standard

Pen Farthing plans to self-publish a book about his Afghanistan escape

‘Operation Ark... was definitely the right decision’ he said

Evening Standard

CBSO/Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla at the Barbican review: the conductor brought a bright, edgy, in-your-face sound

Gražinytė-Tyla’s whiplash rhythms served the pieces well

Evening Standard

Katya Kabanova review – Rattle and Majeski capture the rapture and chaos of Janáček’s turbulent love story

The LSO are on ravishing form, perfectly blending the lyricism and intensity of the score, while the whole cast deliver singing of the highest calibre

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The best new music to look forward to in 2023

Yo La Tengo, Billy Nomates, Låpsley and Paramore have hotly anticipated albums due out – while the BBCSO puts on an Everest opera and Simon Rattle waves goodbye to the Barbican

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s OK to take risks in concerts because there it’s safe to do so’: Conductor Daniel Harding on his double life as an airline pilot

He’s been on the podium with the world’s leading orchestras but, he says, his new parallel career flying for Air France has taught him things he never learned in 30 years of music making

The Guardian - UK

Scramble for new royal figureheads begins among Britain’s arts organisations

Britain’s creative institutions are poised to compete for the most familiar faces to act as patrons – and maximise potential funding

Evening Standard

The songs chosen by orchestras and choirs around the country as tributes to the Queen

The works of English composers were tribute favourites

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The Independent UK

London Symphony Orchestra perform national anthem in tribute to the Queen

The Queen had been a patron of the orchestra since her accession to the throne in 1952.

The Guardian - UK

Lars Vogt obituary

German pianist and conductor who brought exceptional sensitivity and lyricism to his performances

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Rattle review – final season opens with British programme that sparkles

Elgar’s second symphony, sharp and startling and with its slow movement dedicated to a recently departed monarch, was paired with Frank Bridge and new music by Daniel Kidane for a vivid opening concert

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Australian World Orchestra/Mehta; Harrison Birtwistle Day – review

A lifetime’s experience tells as Zubin Mehta graces the Proms along with Australia’s finest, while a stellar tag team of friends and colleagues pay tribute to Harrison Birtwistle

Evening Standard

BBC Proms 2022: Prom 49 Simon Rattle conducts Mahler review – life affirming

A night that will not easily be forgotten

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Rattle review – transatlantic glitz and lithe elegance

Simon Rattle once again showed his affinity with Haydn before a distinct second half featuring a London premiere of John Adams and extrovert Gershwin works

The Guardian - UK

Your guide to the best summer culture

Adele comes home, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis goes for broke, the Edinburgh fringe fires on all cylinders, and HBO and Amazon prepare for a fantasy face-off

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