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From flamenco to punk: Granada launches Neorama, festival of young talent

From 3 to 5 September, Granada hosts Neorama, a travelling festival for young talent, with 40 concerts in jazz, classical, rock, punk and electronic music.

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After a paralyzing stroke, a South Korean pianist recreates himself as a one-handed performer

In 2012, South Korean pianist Lee Hun suffered a major stroke that left him with a right-sided paralysis

The Independent UK

Martha Argerich and Dong-Hyek Lim review – legendary pianist and mentee create musical magic

This thrilling and idiosyncratic concert moved from Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos to Rachmaninov, Ravel and Schumann

The Guardian - UK

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Domingo Hindoyan leads an energetic Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra through Dukas and Ravel – review

5/5 Meanwhile, Carolyn Sampson has just the right soprano vocal weight for Canteloube’s beautiful folk arrangements

The Independent UK

LPO/Benjamin review – music of crystalline clarity and hedonistic pleasure

George Benjamin conducted this meticulously programmed and beautifully executed concert of his own Palimpsests alongside music by Scriabin, Stravinsky and Ravel

The Guardian - UK

From shiveringly vivid Mahler to the eclectic Hermes Experiment: our top classical recordings of 2025

Opera may be conspicuous by its absence, but the brilliance of Berlin Philharmonic’s Schoenberg and the exceptional South Korean Yunchan Lim gave us plenty to sink our teeth into this year

The Guardian - UK

Nash Ensemble: Ravel album review – catches the music’s dazzling light and intriguing shade

The chamber group’s all-Ravel CD is an impeccable farewell to its much-missed founder

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Aimard/Benjamin review – concentrated musical thought and pianistic imagination

George Benjamin joined Pierre-Laurent Aimard to give the UK premiere of his ingenious and compelling Divisions

The Guardian - UK

BBCNOW/Bancroft/Grosvenor review – from the brilliantly bonkers to heavyweight Shostakovich

Sofia Gubaidulina’s Revue Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band was an eccentric and joyful delight and Benjamin Grosvenor dazzled in Ravel’s bluesy Piano Concerto in this BBC National Orchestra of Wales prom

The Guardian - UK

LPO/Gardner/Akhmetshina review – Tippett’s rose lake sounds glorious

Star mezzo Aigul Akhmetshina shone in Ravel’s Shéhérazade, part of a vivid London Philharmonic programme of music evoking fairytales and far horizons

The Guardian - UK

Circa/LPO/Gardner review – Exhilarating, exquisite and extraordinary as Ravel melds with acrobatics

Multitudes festival opened with a stunningly effective collaboration between the Australian circus company and the London Philharmonic Orchestra

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BBC announces 2025 Proms lineup – including first female-fronted Last Night

The 86 concerts this summer will include anniversary celebrations of Shostakovich, Ravel and Boulez, a Traitors-themed Prom presented by Claudia Winkleman – and a record number of female conductors

The Guardian - UK

Ravel: Complete Songs album review – Martineau’s survey is full of treats

Pianist Malcolm Martineau adds Ravel to his surveys of French song, with a treasure trove of lesser-known works

The Guardian - UK

BBCNOW/Martín/De Niese review – from Ravel’s masterful orchestration to Poulenc’s anguished monologue

This French double bill made for bold and effective programming. Danielle de Niese avoided too obvious histrionics and was heart-stopping as the rejected lover

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The week in classical: Opera triple bill: Britten, Weill and Ravel; Hänsel und Gretel; Tosca – review

Two opera studio shows find the next generation of stars in rude health, while the Royal Opera’s latest Tosca revival is the ultimate class act

The Guardian - UK

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra /Wigglesworth/McCarthy review – an impressive, auspicious start

Mark Wigglesworth began his tenure as the BSO’s Chief conductor with a bold programme of Wagner, Walton and Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand – to which Nicholas McCarthy brought delicacy and drama

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

Penarth chamber music festival review – 10th anniversary of a classy affair

The gala celebration featured flamboyant Ravel, an elegant new work from Huw Watkins and deeply expressive Strauss

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CBSO/Yamada review – Anna Clyne’s Atlas is a brilliantly coloured musical scrapbook

This piano concerto co-commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is one of quicksilver changes of mood conveyed brilliantly by Jeremy Denk

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Oxford Bach Soloists: Christmas Oratorio; Chloë Hanslip, Danny Driver – review

Making a thrilling London debut, the Oxford Bach Soloists continue their quest to perform all of the composer’s vocal works over 12 years. Elsewhere, a revelatory reading of Arvo Pärt

The Guardian - UK

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé album review – generations will thank John Wilson for this glorious recording

Ravel’s ballet is infused with Hollywood golden age lushness by Wilson’s outstanding handpicked supergroup Sinfonia of London

The Guardian - UK

Folk Songs album review – Kožená and Rattle on gleaming, glistening form

The wife-and-husband team’s newest collaboration features Bartók, Berio and Ravel; songs that suit Magdalena Kozena’s voice well

The Guardian - UK

Ravel: Piano Concertos album review – Tharaud spreads glitter and fizz

The unfailingly stylish Alexandre Tharaud completes his odyssey into the French composer’s piano music with his two piano concertos, and the additional work, de Falla’s celebrated suite, finds him perfectly in his element

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Oslo Philharmonic/Mäkelä; Leif Ove Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou – review

Usher Hall; The Queen’s Hall, EdinburghKlaus Mäkelä leads skilled versions of Sibelius and Mahler, while Yuja Wang brings warmth and Ravel and Andsnes and Chamayou tackle Schubert and Kurtág

The Guardian - UK

Prom 8: BBCSO/Pons review – Maria Dueñas makes an assured and characterful debut

In a Spanish-flavoured programme, 20-year-old violinist Dueñas shone in Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole and the BBC Symphony under Josep Pons’s baton brought drama and delicacy to Debussy, Falla and Ravel’s Boléro

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