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Wigmore Hall’s principled stand over public funding is music to my ears

The institution is hardly known for being radical but its refusal to accept Arts Council subsidies is a revolutionary move

The Guardian - UK

Conductor Raphaël Pichon makes delayed New York debut at age 41

Conductor Raphaël Pichon makes his New York debut at age 40 on Thursday night, leading the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall

The Independent UK

Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber review – Gerhaher is unmatched singing Schumann

This absorbing recital shone a light on some of the composer’s lesser known songs

The Guardian - UK

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Bittersweet symphonies: UK classical music 2023 in review

Amid the funding woes there were still bright spots this year, from Bach to Byrd, and the Rite to Rachmaninov, while the streaming world continued to evolve and expand

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Wozzeck; Don Giovanni – Christian Gerhaher and Anja Kampe thrill in five-star Berg

Direction and music are as one in Deborah Warner’s gripping new Royal Opera production, while a fine young cast redeems thoughtful if low-key Mozart

The Guardian - UK

Don Giovanni at Glyndebourne and Wozzeck at the Royal Opera House mark a glorious start to the season

A pair of nuanced and contemporary reimaginings

Evening Standard

Wozzeck review – Gerhaher’s victim shuffles towards disaster in nuanced staging

Deborah Warner’s focused and vivid new production avoids caricature, and, with superb singing and Antonio Pappano’s conducting, drama and music dovetail perfectly

The Guardian - UK

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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde review – Gerhaher and Beczała give late masterpiece new life

Heard in a less usual male-voice pairing and with a piano reduction of the full orchestral score, there are more gains than losses to be found here

The Guardian - UK

Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber review – songs of existential crisis delivered with subtlety and snarl

The pianist and baritone were perfectly balanced combining emotional scope and intense ferocity in a repertoire that explored the turmoil of mental illness

The Guardian - UK

Quirky, revelatory, intimate … the best classical releases of 2022

From live Tippett, locked-down Debussy and luminous Charles Koechlin to dazzling Szymanowski and dextrous Beethoven, we pick the outstanding releases of the past 12 months

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s OK to take risks in concerts because there it’s safe to do so’: Conductor Daniel Harding on his double life as an airline pilot

He’s been on the podium with the world’s leading orchestras but, he says, his new parallel career flying for Air France has taught him things he never learned in 30 years of music making

The Guardian - UK

Holliger: Lunea review – opaque and intricate opera of beautiful, fragile music

Holliger’s 2018 opera, depicting episodes from the life of Austrian poet Nikolaus Lenau, is superbly presented in this live recording, with Gerhaher leading an impressive cast

The Guardian - UK

Othmar Schoeck: Elegie review – a cycle bound by quiet melancholy

A rarely heard 24-song cycle with ensemble represents one of the last great flowerings of the romantic lieder tradition

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