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LPO/Benjamin review – music of crystalline clarity and hedonistic pleasure

George Benjamin conducted this meticulously programmed and beautifully executed concert of his own Palimpsests alongside music by Scriabin, Stravinsky and Ravel

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Sir Humphrey Burton obituary

Renowned broadcaster known for arts and music programmes such as Arena, Aquarius and Omnibus

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Moving beyond bar lines: composer Nico Muhly on dancers reimagining his music

Choreographers hear, somehow, a larger heartbeat; it’s fascinating and revelatory to have them reinterpret your compositions, writes the US musician, ahead of a triple bill featuring his music coming to Sadler’s Wells.

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Drusilla Modjeska: ‘How easy it is that we can live in the sunshine and not see the shadow’

In her new book, the Australian author of Exiles at Home and Stravinsky’s Lunch returns to examine how female artists have fought for creative freedom

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‘It really bores me’: Wayne McGregor on why he won’t spell out his striking dance creations

The choreographer has paired the tragedies of Oedipus Rex and Antigone in a monumental double bill, Jocasta’s Line, which refuses to spoon-feed audiences

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Rodion Shchedrin obituary

Russian pianist and composer of startlingly diverse orchestral works, ballet music and operas

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Everything We Do Is Music by Elizabeth Alker review – how the classics shaped pop

From Stravinsky to Donna Summer, the story of connections that enriched music – in both directions

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BBCSO/Ollikainen review – Stravinsky’s sacrificial dance had serrated edges

An exhilarating Rite of Spring and a cool-as-ice Bolero were high points in a Prom that also included the UK premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s luminous Cello Concerto

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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3; Two Scherzos album review – deft execution of the Russian’s early exuberance

Capturing the momentum of two of Shostakovich’s first Soviet-era symphonies, this performance adds a pair of scherzos that pre-date even them

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‘It will lift the spirits’: Kyiv to stage ‘most English of ballets’ after Russian repertoire boycott

Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée to be performed for first time, replacing classics by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky after fundraising in London

The Guardian - UK

Chineke! Orchestra: A Fiddler's Tale at Queen Elizabeth Hall review

4/5 The Chineke! Orchestra takes on Wynton Masalis’ A Fiddler’s Tale with witty and spiky results

Evening Standard

Creating a universe of colour: pianists Kolesnikov & Tsoy play tribute to Hockney

Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy open Paris’s David Hockney retrospective with two ground-breaking concerts. By Lillie Rage

Evening Standard

BBCNOW/MacMillan/Childs review – James MacMillan’s nostalgic celebration of the euphonium

The composer conducted his new work Where the Lugar Meets the Glaisnock, beautifully played by the virtuosic David Childs

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Britten Sinfonia/Sinfonia Smith Square review – quiet fervour and formal grace

Conducting duties were shared between Nicholas Daniel and Benjamin Nicholas in a sombre and moving programme whose main work was Messiaen’s great memorial to the dead of both world wars

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Carlos Santana: ‘Hostile forces tried to destroy Michael Jackson’

INTERVIEW: Ahead of his new album ‘Sentient’, featuring collaborations with some of the great musical icons from history, the legendary guitarist talks to Kevin E G Perry about working with the King of Pop, his memories of Woodstock and Altamont, the genius of Miles Davis and why death is just…

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Järvi conducts Tüür and Stravinsky’s The Firebird review – brutality and balance from the Philharmonia

Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi kept the orchestra on its toes through the UK premiere of his countryman Erkki-Sven Tüür’s new cello concerto

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The Rite of Spring review – Stravinsky ignites a fantastical visual feast

Dewey Dell bring resonant energy to reinvent one of the most frequently revisited pieces in dance history

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“I realised this music is what influenced the stuff I’d been listening to – Pink Floyd, Genesis and so on”: Ben Short saved a Stravinsky album from a skip, and A Formal Horse was the result

The avant-rockers released debut album Here Comes A Man From The Council With A Flamethrower in 2019, when their guitarist-vocalist told Prog how they took their time and finally got there

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LSO/Mäkelä review – dazzle and drama, but always backed by exceptional musicality

A turbo-charged performance from the young conductor, carefully paced and full of bold choices, brought out the beauty and the terror of Stravinsky’s score

The Guardian - UK

Stravinsky: Chamber Works album review – Juilliard and Royal Academy of Music offers much of interest

Students from the UK and the US, conducted by Barbara Hannigan, mix familiar Stravinsky works with the rarely heard

The Guardian - UK

Prom 58: Orchestre de Paris/Mäkelä review – electrifying music-making from an elite team

A Parisian-flavoured programme of narrative works by Debussy, Stravinsky and Berlioz was played with precision and panache, full of relishable and memorable moments

The Guardian - UK

Prom 38: Gabetta/BBCSO/Lu review – Francisco Coll premiere roams deliriously wide

The composer’s Cello Concerto, written for and performed by Sol Gabetta, was perfectly precise in conductor Tianyi Lu’s hands, despite its dizzying technical demands on soloist and orchestra

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Oedipus Rex review – an unmissable and inclusive update of Stravinsky

There was wonderfully precise singing and magnificently dramatic orchestral work, but the promenading community chorus, featuring local NHS workers, may have been the crowning glory of this bold Scottish Opera staging

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