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Playing With Fire review – like Disney’s Fantasia on steroids as a virtual Yuja Wang plays amid luminous dreamworlds

Wang’s avatar performs music from Ravel and Debussy to Prokofiev and Liszt while dizzying virtual worlds take shape around her in this virtual reality installation

The Guardian - UK

Meet Alexander Wong, the young American piano prodigy who took first prize in the 2025 Clara Schumann International Piano Competition's Prodigy Kids category

Alexander Wong, a young American pianist, won first prize at the Clara Schumann Competition. He also secured a Gold Award at the WPTA Finland competition for his Mozart concerto. Wong previously won the Piano Teachers Society of America Competition for his Debussy performance. His technical precision and musical expression have…

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Orchestral Works of Mel Bonis album review – full justice is done to her finely crafted and sensuous music

The French composer – a contemporary of Debussy’s – wrote slender but perfectly-formed pieces of beguiling beauty

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Your new favourite pop star was raised on Debussy and Choping

Chopin and Debussy were her childhood muses, but Sarah Kinsley has unleashed her inner pop-star wild thing

Evening Standard

Pelléas et Mélisande review – luminous semi-staging but Debussy’s elusive opera keeps its secrets

This year’s Aldeburgh festival opened with a stripped-back concert staging by Rory Kinnear with Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

The Guardian - UK

Mentors, muses and new music: conductor and composer Ryan Wigglesworth

The musician first visited Aldeburgh as a teenage fanboy. Now, he is at the centre of this year’s festival as its featured artist – and he’s opening with his favourite opera

The Guardian - UK

“If I’d been sacked, or left over musical differences, I’d have felt a right flunker”: Genesis ex Anthony Phillips on why he really quit – and why he’s not their version of The Beatles’ Pete Best

Amiable co-founder of the prog giants reflects on leaving before the band became huge, and explains why he wishes he’d met his replacement Steve Hackett sooner

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Tamara Stefanovich review – inspired and insightful programme celebrates Kurtág at 100

The pianist’s recital was a masterful essay in sound where the Hungarian composer’s short piano works were woven into and out of Debussy, Liszt and Bach

The Guardian - UK

“It’s about trying to get into the middle of life – not the extreme left or right. It had to do with drinking”: Written in a church, inspired by excess and disliked by their guitarist, this dark Scorpions classic is still one of their strangest songs

It drew on psychedelia and Debussy

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Poem of the week: Simile by Éireann Lorsung

An elegant reflection on experience and imagination complicates a very familiar figure of speech

The Guardian - UK

The Ambassador Auditorium Recitals album review – a joyful reminder of the richness of Claudio Arrau

Three recitals given by the Chilean pianist in the 70s and 80s are a feast of lucid and emphatic playing that hasn’t dated in the slightest

The Guardian - UK

Pelléas et Mélisande review – Longborough’s staging is accomplished and atmospheric

Anthony Negus is attentive to the subtleties of Debussy’s translucent score, and, matched by Jenny Ogilvie’s darkly mysterious production, this makes for one of the most successful shows Longborough festival has ever mounted

The Guardian - UK

La Mer: French Piano Trios album review – expansive, beguiling and unexpected

Works by Saint-Saëns, Mel Bonis and Sally Beamish’s imaginative reinterpretation of Debussy’s La Mer make for a disparate but rounded programme

The Guardian - UK

Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman review – the radical lord of light entertainment

This glorious biography of the whimsical, elusive French composer celebrates the depths of his seemingly sunny music and the impact he had on other forms

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LSO/Pascal review – less is more with brand new Boulez homages

World premieres by Olga Neuwirth, Rafael Marina Arcaro and Lara Agar celebrated Pierre Boulez’s centenary, with Maxime Pascal a hyper-expressive conductor

The Guardian - UK

Debussy: String Quartet & Sonatas album review – the Nash bring warmth and understanding

The Ensemble mark their 60th anniversary with an outstanding recording of Debussy’s late sonatas

The Guardian - UK

‘His music has joy and energy. It is luminous’: Steven Isserlis on the genius of Gabriel Fauré

Fauré is widely known for his beautiful Requiem and Pavane. But, says the British cellist, there is far more of his often radical work to enjoy and explore

The Guardian - UK

Prom 58: Orchestre de Paris/Mäkelä review – electrifying music-making from an elite team

A Parisian-flavoured programme of narrative works by Debussy, Stravinsky and Berlioz was played with precision and panache, full of relishable and memorable moments

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Maurizio Pollini obituary

Pianist who won the Chopin competition at 19 and who had an intellectual approach to art and life

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Stravinsky: Petrushka; Debussy: Jeux; Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un Faune album review – flat and muted

Despite first-rate playing, the young conductor with the orchestral world at his feet fails to deliver the drama behind the vivid gestures

The Guardian - UK

Laura van der Heijden, Jâms Coleman: Path to the Moon album review – intriguing and beguiling

The cellist and pianist juxtapose three major 20th-century sonatas – by George Walker, Britten and Debussy – with a handful of songs in which the cellist takes the vocal line.

The Guardian - UK

Aux Étoiles: French Symphonic Poems album review – well worth exploring

This two-disc compilation provides a potted history of the symphonic poem genre in France. Charlotte Sohy’s little known Danse Mystique stands out as a remarkable discovery

The Guardian - UK

Kožená/Uchida review – beauty and elegance in starry pairing’s French programme

Long-time – if occasional – recital partners Magdalena Kožená and Mitsuko Uchida presented an evening of Debussy and Messiaen

Evening Standard

TikTok organist Anna Lapwood at the BBC Proms review: an entrancing performance from a one-woman orchestra

Lapwood deployed the organ’s entire range, from the merest whisper to stadium-rock pomp at full volume

The Guardian - UK

Penarth chamber music festival review – anticolonial poems and a moonstruck Pierrot

Unspoken harmony reigned among the group of chamber musicians who performed Ravel, Schönberg and Debussy at this delightful small festival

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