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Simply the best? Is the Berlin Philharmonic really better than all the rest?

The orchestra – at the Proms this week – is hailed as among the best in the world, if not the best. For my money, that’s quite possibly right, but why?

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Dancing on a Volcano album review – a glorious technicolour snapshot of pre-war musical Germany

From Hindemith’s jazz-age energy to Schoenberg’s existential angst, and Kurt Weill’s biting satire to Korngold’s neo-Romanticism, this lively recording is a perfect example of the kind of music the Nazis couldn’t abide.

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Elisabeth Leonskaja review – piano legend’s unerring sense of architecture reveals connections and kinships

In her recital programme of Beethoven, Schoenberg, Chopin, Webern and Schubert, the Austrian pianist brought new insights and expected delights

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Pierrot Lunaire review – Royal Ballet reaches for the moon with a creepy dance of desire

Glen Tetley’s landmark 1962 ballet, set to Schoenberg’s atonal score, is a stark, strange and psychologically charged drama

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‘That make-or-break feeling? I love it’: can André de Ridder put ENO back on its feet?

Budgets have been slashed, morale is through the floor and the company has been forced to find a second base in Manchester. But the new musical director is up for a challenge. We meet the man with the hardest job in music

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Beare’s Chamber Music festival review: string supergroup dazzle with Schubert, Strauss and Schoenberg

The likes of Janine Jansen, Timothy Ridout and Kian Soltani were part of a starry lineup giving this London audience a taste of heaven on earth

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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

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Ginastera: String Quartets album review – compelling and colourful

The passionate settings of Spanish poetry in the Argentinian composer’s third string quartet are the real discovery of this career-spanning trilogy

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Majestic, rigorous and sheer fun: the best of Alfred Brendel’s recordings

As the musical world mourns the celebrated pianist, we assess his wide recording legacy and pick the 12 best, from Russian rarities to quickfire Beethoven

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Belcea Quartet at Wigmore Hall review: a meticulous, lovingly shaped take on Beethoven

5/5 The quartet been playing Beethoven’s quartets for decades – they’ve recorded all 15 of them twice – now, they truly inhabit the work

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The Guardian view on 20th-century composers: play it again, maestro

Radio 3’s celebration of Pierre Boulez is a chance to revisit “difficult” music and break down divisions between old and new styles

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Klangforum Wien review – Vienna focus brings lucid and colour-filled Pierrot Lunaire

Schoenberg’s revolutionary work powered the new-music ensemble’s second Wigmore programme, based around 20th-century modernism

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From Captain America to The White Lotus: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Anthony Mackie dons the Lycra as Marvel’s shield-chucking superhero, and Mike White’s resort-hopping black comedy returns for a third season

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LPO/Kremer/Roslavets/Boreyko review – an evening of raw and uncompromising music

The darkness of Shostakovich’s Symphony No 13 and Schoenberg’s A Survivor From Warsaw had a haunting modern resonance

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Prom 67: BBCSO/Peltokoski/Kopatchinskaja review – conducting sensation reveals what the fuss is about

The 24-year-old Tarmo Peltokoski showed there’s substance to the hype with thoughtful Schoenberg – Kopatchinskaja playing with elfin grace – and an ambitious and moving account of Shostakovich’s fifth

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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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Prom 5: BBCNOW/Bancroft review – full-blooded return to the birth of modernism

Ryan Bancroft’s conducting did crisp justice to Schoenberg’s Pelleas and Melisande and Zemlinsky’s Mermaid, which originally premiered together in 1905

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Hebrides Ensemble/Lamprea review – Schoenberg’s Pierrot is pushed to extremes

Pierrot Lunaire was at the centre of this concert, with Stephanie Lamprea’s performance taking the work to the edge of hysteria. Newer music by Electra Perivolaris and Helen Grime continued the Pierrot theme

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Schoenberg: Expressionist Music album review – thoughtful and illuminating collection

Soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn turn to Schoenberg’s early and little known songs in this immaculate recording

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Mullova Ensemble: Transfigured Night review – insights into Schoenberg’s string sextet

A fascinating idea – an evening of music and dance reflecting the poem that was the starting point for Schoenberg’s famous piece alongside an unadorned performance of the work itself – doesn’t quite succeed

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Transfigured Night at Milton Court review: outstanding take on a masterpiece of the string sextet repertoire

The six players breathed as one during this work, inspired by Dehmel's scandalous poem, projecting the inner voices of the text and the score

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From The Miracle Club to Sir Quentin Blake: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

A stellar cast embarks upon a pilgrimage in Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s feminist drama, and Roald Dahl’s wildly distinctive illustrator celebrates his 90th birthday

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‘Joni Mitchell watched me sing one of her songs. I was horrified’: Rick Beato, the world’s best-loved music nerd

As energised by Taylor Swift as Schoenberg, Beato has earned millions of fans with his YouTube videos and become the man musicians seek out to discuss their craft

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Emerson String Quartet: Infinite Voyage review – leading quartet bid farewell with Schoenberg and Berg

This wonderful parting gift from the quartet features warm lustrous performances of Schoenberg’s Second Quartet (with soprano Barbara Hannigan) and Berg’s opus 3, plus two beautifully rendered rarities by Hindemith and Chausson

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Skalkottas: Violin Concerto; Concerto for Violin, Viola and Wind review – little-known works give glimpses of greatness

Violinist George Zacharias’s belief in this hugely demanding music shines through, but the stylistic differences between the concertos is bewildering

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