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National Youth Orchestra/Adès review – assured young musicians end their season all guns blazing

Thunderous timpani, stereo harps, a supersized horn section and 160 teenagers combined for Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, Adès’s Dante and a Liszt waltz

The Guardian - UK · Aug 9

Imagine a world without Wagner … it’s not easy, but let’s try

As the Bayreuth festival turns 150, we look at the composer’s huge and enduring influence, and wonder what might have happened to classical music in his absence?

The Guardian - UK · Jul 8

125th anniversary gala concert review – back to 1901 as Wigmore celebrates birthday playing to its strengths

The veteran chamber music venue kicked off a celebratory two-week festival with a starry lineup of performers playing works that had featured on the first ever programme

The Guardian - UK · May 26

From After the Hunt to the Last Dinner Party: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Guillermo del Toro offers his take on Mary Shelley’s cobbled-together creature, and the baroque rockers follow up their chart-topping debut album

The Guardian - UK · Oct 18, 2025

BBCSO/Adès review – Adès held the orchestra as if under a spell

A Proms programme of the UK premiere of Gabriella Smith’s Breathing Forests, Sibelius, and Adès’s own music (Five Spells from The Tempest) was atmospheric and engaging

The Guardian - UK · Sep 3, 2025

Adès, Leith, Marsey: Orchestral Works album review – an impressive collection marks a productive association

This brings together new works of his own and by composers he admires that Thomas Adès has conducted at Bridgewater Hall during his residency with the Hallé

The Guardian - UK · Jul 4, 2025

LSO/Adès review – Adámek’s concerto pits Isabelle Faust’s violin against a bullying orchestra

Follow Me by Ondřej Adámek is a vivid work that upends traditional relationships, while exhilarating and faultless Beethoven symphonies bookend the concert

The Guardian - UK · Nov 1, 2024

The week in classical: Yuja Wang x Hockney; Proms 61 & 62: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Rattle – review

Surrounded by giant projections of her friend David Hockney’s art show, star pianist Yuja Wang pushes the boundaries of what a concert can be

The Guardian - UK · Sep 14, 2024

Prom 61: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orch/Rattle review – rich and rewarding Adès, graceful Bruckner

Simon Rattle, with his new German orchestra, brought Thomas Adès’s Aquifer to vivid life in its UK premiere, and held the audience rapt in a lucid and light-on-its-feet reading of Bruckner’s fourth symphony

The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2024

LSO/Adès review – Adès’s violin concerto beguiles in Mutter’s silvery sound

The UK premiere of the composer’s concerto written for Anne-Sophie Mutter was placed alongside two of Stravinsky’s ballet scores in this musically rich and vivid concert

The Guardian - UK · May 31, 2024