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Oslo Philharmonic/Gražinytė-Tyla/Kopatchinskaja review – weapons-grade charisma and anarchic delight

Patricia Kopatchinskaja hurls herself into Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto, while conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla brings precision and intensity to Prokofiev

The Guardian - UK

The Rake’s Progress review – a young cast packed with promise do Stravinsky’s dance with the devil proud

The staging is awkward and balance is an issue at points, but the singers of British Youth Opera are consistently impressive

The Guardian - UK

BBCNOW/Bancroft review – McGill is a stylish soloist in Kahane’s likable clarinet concerto

With Stravinsky and Copland also on the programme, this was a lively if uneven concert

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BBC Proms review: Salonen conducts 20th-Century Classics in style

4/5 Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the cream of Juilliard Orchestra and Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra in a fine evening at the BBC Proms

Evening Standard

I thought Nolan’s Odyssey was an epic bore. If you want Greek myths brought to life, try the thrill of opera!

Composers from Purcell to Birtwistle have created passionate dramas inspired by ancient Greek stories – and none of them require you to sit through three hours of solemn spectacle without an interval

The Guardian - UK

This strange novel riffs on The Tempest, swapping its teen girl for a menopausal marine biologist

Kris Kneen’s new novel of rich strangeness and blurred boundaries, and set on a wild island, references both Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring – which gives it its name.

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Jonathan Kuo: Java Dreams album review – young pianist brings unflashy exuberance to complex works

The Indonesian musician impresses in his debut solo recording of Godowsky’s Java Suite and Stravinsky’s piano arrangement of Petrushka

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Danish String Quartet review – captivating performance from a world-class group

The quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky

The Guardian - UK

BBCNOW/Bancroft review – conductor takes final bow in imaginative programme of vivid colours and emotions

Works about infatuation and deep feeling were fitting choices with which the Ryan Bancroft bid a celebratory farewell to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

The Guardian - UK

Michael Tilson Thomas obituary

American conductor who brought high-octane dynamism to performances by the London Symphony Orchestra

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The Rite of Spring / Mirror review – glitchy Stravinsky and digital doppelgangers from Alexander Whitley

Visual spectacle overwhelms the human drama in the choreographer’s tech-heavy double bill

The Guardian - UK

BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Oramo/ Son review – rainy days, rolling hills and enchanted creatures

Judith Weir’s salute to the Indian monsoon kicked off a concert on nature and folk themes, Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son brought poetic flourishes to works by Bartók and Finzi, while the magical Firebird made a rousing finale

The Guardian - 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

Sir Humphrey Burton obituary

Renowned broadcaster known for arts and music programmes such as Arena, Aquarius and Omnibus

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Moving beyond bar lines: composer Nico Muhly on dancers reimagining his music

Choreographers hear, somehow, a larger heartbeat; it’s fascinating and revelatory to have them reinterpret your compositions, writes the US musician, ahead of a triple bill featuring his music coming to Sadler’s Wells.

The Guardian - AU

Drusilla Modjeska: ‘How easy it is that we can live in the sunshine and not see the shadow’

In her new book, the Australian author of Exiles at Home and Stravinsky’s Lunch returns to examine how female artists have fought for creative freedom

The Guardian - UK

‘It really bores me’: Wayne McGregor on why he won’t spell out his striking dance creations

The choreographer has paired the tragedies of Oedipus Rex and Antigone in a monumental double bill, Jocasta’s Line, which refuses to spoon-feed audiences

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Rodion Shchedrin obituary

Russian pianist and composer of startlingly diverse orchestral works, ballet music and operas

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Everything We Do Is Music by Elizabeth Alker review – how the classics shaped pop

From Stravinsky to Donna Summer, the story of connections that enriched music – in both directions

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BBCSO/Ollikainen review – Stravinsky’s sacrificial dance had serrated edges

An exhilarating Rite of Spring and a cool-as-ice Bolero were high points in a Prom that also included the UK premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s luminous Cello Concerto

The Guardian - UK

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3; Two Scherzos album review – deft execution of the Russian’s early exuberance

Capturing the momentum of two of Shostakovich’s first Soviet-era symphonies, this performance adds a pair of scherzos that pre-date even them

The Guardian - UK

‘It will lift the spirits’: Kyiv to stage ‘most English of ballets’ after Russian repertoire boycott

Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée to be performed for first time, replacing classics by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky after fundraising in London

Evening Standard

Chineke! Orchestra: A Fiddler's Tale at Queen Elizabeth Hall review

4/5 The Chineke! Orchestra takes on Wynton Masalis’ A Fiddler’s Tale with witty and spiky results

Evening Standard

Creating a universe of colour: pianists Kolesnikov & Tsoy play tribute to Hockney

Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy open Paris’s David Hockney retrospective with two ground-breaking concerts. By Lillie Rage

The Guardian - UK

BBCNOW/MacMillan/Childs review – James MacMillan’s nostalgic celebration of the euphonium

The composer conducted his new work Where the Lugar Meets the Glaisnock, beautifully played by the virtuosic David Childs

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