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Britten Sinfonia/Sinfonia Smith Square review – quiet fervour and formal grace

Conducting duties were shared between Nicholas Daniel and Benjamin Nicholas in a sombre and moving programme whose main work was Messiaen’s great memorial to the dead of both world wars

The Guardian - UK

Carlos Santana: ‘Hostile forces tried to destroy Michael Jackson’

INTERVIEW: Ahead of his new album ‘Sentient’, featuring collaborations with some of the great musical icons from history, the legendary guitarist talks to Kevin E G Perry about working with the King of Pop, his memories of Woodstock and Altamont, the genius of Miles Davis and why death is just…

The Independent UK

Järvi conducts Tüür and Stravinsky’s The Firebird review – brutality and balance from the Philharmonia

Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi kept the orchestra on its toes through the UK premiere of his countryman Erkki-Sven Tüür’s new cello concerto

The Guardian - UK

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The Rite of Spring review – Stravinsky ignites a fantastical visual feast

Dewey Dell bring resonant energy to reinvent one of the most frequently revisited pieces in dance history

The Guardian - UK

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“I realised this music is what influenced the stuff I’d been listening to – Pink Floyd, Genesis and so on”: Ben Short saved a Stravinsky album from a skip, and A Formal Horse was the result

The avant-rockers released debut album Here Comes A Man From The Council With A Flamethrower in 2019, when their guitarist-vocalist told Prog how they took their time and finally got there

Louder

LSO/Mäkelä review – dazzle and drama, but always backed by exceptional musicality

A turbo-charged performance from the young conductor, carefully paced and full of bold choices, brought out the beauty and the terror of Stravinsky’s score

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Stravinsky: Chamber Works album review – Juilliard and Royal Academy of Music offers much of interest

Students from the UK and the US, conducted by Barbara Hannigan, mix familiar Stravinsky works with the rarely heard

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

The Guardian - UK

Prom 38: Gabetta/BBCSO/Lu review – Francisco Coll premiere roams deliriously wide

The composer’s Cello Concerto, written for and performed by Sol Gabetta, was perfectly precise in conductor Tianyi Lu’s hands, despite its dizzying technical demands on soloist and orchestra

The Guardian - UK

Oedipus Rex review – an unmissable and inclusive update of Stravinsky

There was wonderfully precise singing and magnificently dramatic orchestral work, but the promenading community chorus, featuring local NHS workers, may have been the crowning glory of this bold Scottish Opera staging

The Guardian - UK

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Mark Brown: Here's my biggest picks for this year's Fringe

IT’S that time of year again, when many a well-heeled Edinburgher departs for three-and-a-half weeks in Provence, renting out their home for the…

The National (Scotland)

The Rake’s Progress review – stripped back staging foregrounds the sadness

The black humour was missing from Antony McDonald’s new production of Stravinsky’s neoclassical opera. But Rosie Aldridge’s Baba the Turk, especially, and a strong young cast made for a memorable evening.

The Guardian - UK

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LSO/Adès review – Adès’s violin concerto beguiles in Mutter’s silvery sound

The UK premiere of the composer’s concerto written for Anne-Sophie Mutter was placed alongside two of Stravinsky’s ballet scores in this musically rich and vivid concert

The Guardian - UK

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

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The week in classical: LSO/ Rattle; The Rake’s Progress; The Flying Dutchman; Elena Urioste and Tom Poster – review

Dread runs through John Adams’s pulsating new ‘short symphony’; Stravinsky’s Rake has plenty of company at ETO; Bryn Terfel returns as the mythical Dutchman; and two lockdown favourites bring the house down

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Evening Standard

The Rake's Progress at Hackney Empire review: a hectic revival that has ransacked the dressing-up box

Beyond the jumble of ideas, this is a thoughtful production of Stravinski’s opera

The Guardian - UK

The Rake’s Progress review – stylisation tips towards surrealism in ETO’s staging of Stravinsky parable

Polly Graham’s new staging benefits from consistently fine singing as the indolent Tom Rakewell and the demonic Nick Shadow clash

The Guardian - UK

Giselle; Les Noces: The Departure review – the shock of the old

English National Ballet dance Mary Skeaping’s 70s reworking of the classic ballet with loving care, while Stravinsky’s revolutionary Les Noces holds its own in an ambitious reworking

Louder

“Even though I go off on a tangent sometimes, I think he appreciates the melodic aspect I bring to the John Hackett Band”: Guitarist Nick Fletcher indulges himself on solo instrumental Quadrivium

Jazz rocker explores modes, plaintive tones and mysticism on his album, featuring old bandmate Dave Bainbridge

The Guardian - UK

Les Noces – The Departure review: absorbingly renewed marriage bonds

On a catwalk-like stage, the ambitious New Movement Collective celebrate Stravinsky’s peasant wedding with a twist, adding fresh musical compositions to ramp up the atmosphere

The Guardian - UK

Stravinsky: Violin Concerto album review – neoclassical Stravinsky with style and substance

The Apollo ballet and the Violin concerto are the lead works in this collection recorded by conductor Andrew Davis and violinist James Ehnes

The Hindu

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