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Swan Lake in-the-round at the Royal Albert Hall review: tutu-tacular scales up the spectacle but not the emotion

This 60-strong show is an impressive feat – even if it does lack a frisson

Evening Standard

Byron Janis obituary

US piano virtuoso renowned for dynamic and lyrical playing as well as championing the cause of his fellow sufferers from arthritis

The Guardian - UK

A brief encounter with the classics

Brief letters: Pre-op soundtracks | St George’s cross | Flights of fancy | Eggy bread | Starter homes

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Classical home listening: Elisabeth Lutyens Piano Works; Tchaikovsky and Korngold string sextets and more

Martin Jones makes a persuasive case for an unfashionable British composer; Antonio Oyarzabal continues to champion forgotten female composers; and the Nash Ensemble hit 60 in style

The Guardian - UK

Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works Vol 2 album review – first-rate playing even if some of the music is less so

Some of Tchaikovsky’s lesser known pieces are on this disc by Alpesh Chauhan and the BBCSSO

The Guardian - UK

If you’re raging that ‘Netflix made Alexander the Great gay’, it’s time to learn some LGBTQ+ history

For centuries, LGBTQ+ lives have been wiped from the record – February represents a chance to celebrate our contribution, says novelist Matt Cain

The Guardian - UK

‘Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker’ an extraordinary, superbly jazzed take on a holiday classic

It’s “The Nutcracker” to a totally different beat, and thoroughly entertaining.

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Yuri Temirkanov obituary

Russian conductor admired for his electrifying interpretations of his nation’s repertoire, especially Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky

The Guardian - UK

How music heals us, even when it's sad – by a neuroscientist leading a new study of musical therapy

When I hear Shania Twain’s You’re Still The One, it takes me back to when I was 15, playing on my Dad’s PC. I was tidying up the mess after he had tried to [take his own life]. He’d been listening to her album, and I played it as I…

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The chicest London Christmas events to book now

Have yourself a merry little evening with one of London's best festive events. But hurry, says Annabelle Spranklen, they're selling out fast

Evening Standard

‘The Nutcracker’ heralds holiday season’s dance programming in Chicago

Here’s a guide to where mice and soldiers will be showing their moves, and other dance performances during the final weeks of 2023.

Chicago Sun-Times

Coyote Vs. Acme Composer Shares Amazing 'Meep Meep' Song, Now I'm Even More Upset About Warner Bros. Scrapping The Movie

If you were disappointed in Coyote vs. Acme's shelving before, just wait until you hear this meep-tastic clip from its scrapped musical score.

Cinemablend

Nutcracker review – a Christmas dream of love that goes with a swing

A hunky Action Man opens up a sequin-clad life for the protagonist of Drew McOnie’s jazzy, out-and-proud take on Tchaikovsky’s ballet

The Guardian - UK

Classical home listening: Chineke!’s Nutcracker Suite; Angela Hewitt’s Mozart Sonatas

Chineke! swing in an infectious jazz version of Tchaikovsky’s ballet by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. And Angela Hewitt keeps Mozart wonderfully fresh

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Two Moors festival review – Sitkovetsky Trio make this an unmissable weekend

On the west of England festival’s final two days, Deborah Pritchard’s new song cycle was expressive and sensitive, and the Sitkovetsky Trio’s Tchaikovsky was overwhelming

The Guardian - UK

Bournemouth SO/Karabits review – orchestra and conductor in perfect harmony

The conductor’s special qualities were on show in a varied programme, and helped add stability to artist-in-residence Alexander Malofeev’s glittering performance

The Guardian - UK

Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky: ‘I don’t want my ballet to be staged in Russia ever again’

When the Ukrainian invasion began, the ballet great left a show at the Bolshoi in protest. Here he reconsiders his past ties with Russia and the silence of the cultural elite in the country of his birth

The Guardian - 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

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Prom 13: BBCSSO/Volkov review – Lamb’s absorbing triptych shimmers amid the silences

The challenges of Catherine Lamb’s new Portions Transparent/Opaque were expertly navigated by Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish; Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony was purposeful and focused

The Guardian - UK

The Met Orchestra/Nézet-Séguin review – white-hot music drama

Making their first visit to the UK in two decades, the New York orchestra – with Joyce DiDonato and Angel Blue – wrung every drop of emotion from Shakespearean music by Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Berlioz and Matthew Aucoin

Bangkok Post

Zee Zee casts her spell over Bangkok

Marking the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff's birth, one of today's most exceptionally brilliant pianists recently visited Thailand to collaborate with the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra in a concert supported by B.Grimm.

The Independent UK

Concertgoer heard having ‘loud and full-body orgasm’ during Los Angeles Philharmonic’s show

Woman’s ‘screams and moans’ reportedly happened during the orchestra’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s fifth symphony

Daily Mirror

Woman has 'loud and full body orgasm' during LA Philharmonic classical concert

Concertgoers who turned out to the LA Philharmonic's performance of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony claim to have heard a woman climax at the sound of the orchestra playing

Metal Hammer

Enter Shikari's Rou Reynolds: the songs that changed my life

From The Prodigy and Hundred Reasons to Gloria Jones and Tchaikovsky, these are the songs that have meant the most to the Enter Shikari frontman

Reuters

Ukrainian ballerina uprooted by war flies high again in Swan Lake

After the lights dim in Budapest's magnificent Opera House, Ukrainian ballerina Ganna Muromtseva flutters high with undulating arms in the lead role of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet. At the end, the audience bursts into applause.

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