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Man, 88, passes grade 8 piano with distinction, 67 years after taking grade 7

Ray Eveleigh says playing helps keep his brain active and wife and daughter encouraged him to go for grade 8

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Brahms for the soul on the night the US election results came in

A stirring performance by Víkingur Ólafsson of a piano concerto written amid a period of great sorrow. I think we could relate

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Brahms: Piano Sonata No 1; Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy, D760 album review – beautifully shaped works and a bravura performance

The French pianist revels in the virtuoso demands of Brahms’s early sonata

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WEDO/Barenboim review – optimism and despondency as visionary conductor returns to London

Making their second visit to the capital this year, a frail Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra played sun-drenched Mendelssohn and stately Brahms with command and beauty

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Williams/Burch; Booth/Waley-Cohen review – persuasive Schubert and superb Kurtág

Roderick Williams was vivid and compelling in Schubert’s Schwanengesang, while Claire Booth rose to the challenges of Kafka Fragments

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Brahms: Piano Concertos; Piano Pieces Opp 116-119 album review – Levit’s performance is utterly compelling

It’s hard to think of a better recording of Brahms’ late solo works for piano, even if the two concertos they are packaged with here are less convincing

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Piotr Anderszewski review – exceptional, even by his meticulous standards

This programme made largely of miniatures was one to treasure. Anderszewski is a remarkable pianist – no note is out of place, no chord not perfectly balanced

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Megalopolis to Industry: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Francis Ford Coppola’s grandiose, dystopian sci-fi is finally unleashed, and the young City bankers go green with Lord Muck

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Proms 53 and 54: BBCSO/Brabbins; Beethoven for Three

The Proms’ tribute to Andrew Davis was crowned by a joyous Steve Reich premiere, while the next day saw three outstanding musicians grapple with awkward acoustics

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The week in classical: Prom 31: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/ Barenboim; GBSR Duo – review

With minimal gestures yet complete control, a now frail Daniel Barenboim returned to the Proms in a concert of exceptional poignancy

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Prom 31: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Barenboim review – an unforgettable and heroic return

Two years after he stepped back from performance, the conductor was back at the Proms – far frailer, but still able to conjure an instant response with a tiny flick of the baton

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Prom 9: BBC Scottish SO/Wigglesworth review – meticulous making of unexpected connections

Beautiful wind playing in a slow-burning Brahms joined searing strings in Schoenberg and Alice Coote’s fine-grain singing of Mahler for a space-testing night

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Brahms: The Symphonies album review – less is more for Nézet-Séguin and the COE

With a smaller orchestra than standard, Yannick Nézet-Séguin bring litheness without diminishing any of the symphonies’ power or clarity

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James Loughran obituary

Conductor who won the inaugural Philharmonia competition and recorded Brahms with the Hallé and Beethoven with the London Symphony Orchestra

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The week in classical: Igor Levit, Renaud Capuçon, Julia Hagen; Manchester Camerata: Disruptors review – ringing successes

Three soloists collaborate to singular effect playing Brahms, while vibrant works old and new are performed by the Camerata ensemble

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Belcea Quartet/Zimmerman/Queyras review – exquisite, unbuttoned Brahms

The Belceas were joined by Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras for this revelatory performance of Brahms’s two youthful String Sextets

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Quatuor Agate: Brahms – The String Quartets album review – a suave and refined debut

The Paris-based group’s first disc is a wonderfully detailed recording of Brahms quartets that at times might benefit from a more muscular edge

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Igor Levit review – this was a recital where everything was just right

In a supremely poetic and impressive performance Levit perfectly conveyed the searching spirit of Brahms’s late-life piano works

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BBCNOW/Martin review – Higgins’ horn concerto is confident, fluent – and life-enhancing

Gavin Higgins’ new work, premiered here, takes inspiration from the Forest of Dean, where he grew up. It was brought to vivid and organic life by Ben Goldscheider

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LSO/Noseda review – Prokofiev’s curious Fourth alongside very fine Brahms

Gianandrea Noseda and the LSO made a strong case for the 1947 version of Prokofiev’s Fourth symphony, and Simon Trpčeski was an insightful and elegant soloist in Brahms’s second piano concerto

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Even Beethoven got bad reviews. John Malkovich reads them aloud as 'The Music Critic'

A new live stage show features actor John Malkovich transformed into some of the meanest music critics ever — in real reviews skewering the work of great composers like Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin.

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Poem of the week: September Castles by Peter Davidson

Davidson redeems a bitter season with the story of a personal encounter that is also an encounter with poetry

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The week in classical: Proms 38 & 39; Prom 40; Trouble in Tahiti – review

Three Hungarian-inspired proms combine sizzling energy, Bartók and dadaist absurdity, while an intimate staging ramps up the angst in a bite-size Bernstein

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Proms at Sage Gateshead review – festival goes north for euphoric weekend that moves from Brahms to barking like dogs

With concerts encompassing pop, classical, jazz and a CBeebies family extravaganza, the Proms took over Sage Gateshead for a triumphant communal experience that underlined how music can connect us

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LSO/Tilson Thomas/Tetzlaff review – Brahms soars and glows

In an all Brahms programme, Christian Tetzlaff brought momentum and shape to the Violin Concerto, and Tilson Thomas made every note glow

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