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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

125th anniversary gala concert review – back to 1901 as Wigmore celebrates birthday playing to its strengths

The veteran chamber music venue kicked off a celebratory two-week festival with a starry lineup of performers playing works that had featured on the first ever programme

The Guardian - UK

O/Modernt review – from Auerbach to Mahler, the fires of love bruise, batter and delight

The Stockholm-based chamber ensemble, led by violinist Hugo Ticciati, brought a programme that linked Auerbach and Janáček to Golijov – with clarinettist Christoffer Sundqvist the hypnotic soloist - and Mahler

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The Wigmore Hall at 125: a celebration of one of our best classical venues

IN FOCUS: The hall went through a relatively barren patch in the 1970s but since then its reputation as a centre for the best chamber music has climbed steadily, writes Simon Mundy

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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

The Guardian - UK

Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi review – big, generous, provocative music-making on a small stage

Grammy-winning Giddens fused folk, opera, jazz, pop and classical elements in a recital ‘honouring composers who don’t often get called composers’

The Guardian - UK

Are ‘Friends’ Electric? review – Elaine Mitchener redefines what singing means in virtuoso tour-de-force

The vocalist travels the full spectrum of the human voice, from subdued sounds of mouth and breath to an exhilarating remix of her own hyper-exuberant electronic soundscape

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An English Song Winterreise review – Roderick Williams masterfully mirrors Schubert’s iconic song cycle

The baritone has refined his playlist to include Vaughan Williams, Ina Boyle and Gerald Finzi, lending this enthralling cycle deeper melancholy than the original

The Guardian - UK

Pavel Kolesnikov review – he is a virtuosic sculptor in sound

A beautifully controlled programme of Chopin, Rameau, and the latter’s long-forgotten contemporary Duphly, showcased the pianist’s unerring sense of line

The Guardian - UK

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

Stephen Kovacevich and friends at Wigmore Hall review: time for our annual dose of magic

4/5 When keyboard giants Stephen Kovacevich and Martha Argerich come together, it’s always an unmissable event

Evening Standard

Apartment House review – an evening rich in discoveries, musical delicacies and magic

The new music ensemble was at the top of its game with seven premieres that included melancholy hymns from Linda Catlin Smith, Paul Paccione’s scrunchy modal harmonies and fragile beauty from Ramūnas Motiekaitis

The Guardian - UK

The Mozartists at the Wigmore Hall: a flirty, playful take on the composer's works

4/5 This plan to follow the life of Mozart through his works is ambitious and soulful

Evening Standard

A note of thanks to Simon Tisdall

In his last Observer column, he outlined an interesting proposition for the UK – a unified Europe rejuvenated by the new world era of Donald Trump

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Winterreise by Joyce DiDonato and Maxim Emelyanychev at Wigmore Hall

5/5 Schubert’s song cycle is interpreted in powerful style by Joyce DiDonato, accompanied by Maxim Emelyanychev

The Guardian - UK

Wigmore Hall says it no longer requires public funding

The classical music venue in London has raised £10m to become financially self-sufficient and will voluntarily withdraw from Arts Council England’s portfolio

The Guardian - UK

Nash Ensemble at 60 review – world premieres and evocative old favourites

From Simon Holt’s bird-like Acrobats on a Loose Wire to Helen Grime’s haunting Long Have I Lain Beside the Water, the four new works join more than 330 commissioned over the past six decades

Evening Standard

Diary of a beauty editor: the best treatments and products I've discovered in London this week

Busy lives in the capital demand a certain type of product. Madeleine Spencer on what has kept her looking polished this week

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The Indian Queen review – musical wit, fratricide and crested adders as the Sixteen play Purcell

Rollicking orchestral hornpipes and vigorous trumpet tunes accompany a sterling vocal cast for Purcell’s final – and unfinished – semi-opera

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Leif Ove Andsnes review – an insightful champion returns Tveitt to the Wigmore stage

Geirr Tviett’s Ether Sonata – one of the Norwegian composer’s few surviving works – is a rich and characterful piece, part of a recital that also included Grieg and Chopin

Evening Standard

Business as usual for rest of royal family as King attends London concert

As Harry prepared to continue his evidence in the High Court phone-hacking trial, his father Charles was listening to coronation music at St James’s Roman Catholic Church in London

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The week in classical: Teyber Trio; Quartet for the End of Time; King’s Singers

Intimate Messiaen, vocal fireworks and a rare string trio version of Bach’s Goldberg Variations light up a week of more funding cuts fallout

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