Viktoria Mullova, Paolo Giacometti (****)/ Vilde Frang, Michail Lifits (*****)
26 March 2013 08:58 AM
Wigmore Hall, London
26 March 2013 08:58 AM
Wigmore Hall, London
23 March 2013 08:00 PM
The violinist's interpretation of Brahms's Sonata in G presents the young composer as a hungry outsider in the marriage of Robert and Clara Schumann.
23 March 2013 08:00 PM
A genuinely odd collaboration, this, between the classical pianist Dinnerstein and the country singer-songwriter Merritt.
23 March 2013 08:00 PM
Five pianos went down with the 'Titanic' – a century later, Cassie Yukawa imagines we can hear them still
18 March 2013 05:06 PM
The instrument, alleged to have belonged to band leader Wallace Hartley and to have been strapped to his chest when he was plucked from the sea, is set to be auctioned. But the Titanic Historical Society has questioned its origins
18 March 2013 11:24 AM
When a major pianist tackles the complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas the results are always fascinating. Daniel Barenboim’s Southbank performances in 2008 may have had such startling blemishes that he refused to let Radio 3 broadcast them, but they still glow majestically in the memory.
18 March 2013 10:46 AM
A John Adams ‘Passion’ staged by his regular collaborator Peter Sellars sounded promising, even if the latter was going to ‘craft’ the libretto. As Sellars’s synopsis made clear, The Gospel According to the Other Mary would juxtapose Biblical events with some quintessentially Californian struggles.
18 March 2013 12:01 AM
In his latest dispatch, Michael Volpe ponders the harshest critics – children
18 March 2013 12:00 AM
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16 March 2013 07:15 PM
A brilliant collaboration cooks a mediaeval love story into a crisp modern fable, with delectable orchestration on the side
16 March 2013 06:00 PM
Published in 1735, Telemann's Fantasias were long dismissed as music for amateurs and compared unfavourably with Bach's Sonatas and Partitas.
13 March 2013 05:34 PM
Royal Opera House chief claims current crop lack commitment
13 March 2013 11:43 AM
Teen pop idol Justin Bieber is unlikely to be heard on highbrow Radio 3, but he will be this week when one of his hits gets a classical makeover.
13 March 2013 10:14 AM
Tremendous fun with rude and crude humour
11 March 2013 11:22 AM
The rate at which a George Benjamin opera gestates is glacially slow, and his long-awaited Written on Skin, triumphantly premiered at Aix last summer, has now reached London. And though a 100-minute, interval-free symbolic drama set to post-tonal music might sound rebarbative, it actually makes a riveting evening.
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