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BBCSSO/Wigglesworth/Batsashvili review – detailed and monumental Bruckner

The BBC Scottish chief conductor’s reading of Bruckner’s Seventh was thoughtful and balanced. Mariam Batsashvili was an enthralling soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 20.

The Guardian - UK

OAE/Fischer review – historically informed Bruckner thrills

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment celebrated the composer’s 200th birthday with a revelatory performance of his Fifth Symphony

The Guardian - UK

Prom 61: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orch/Rattle review – rich and rewarding Adès, graceful Bruckner

Simon Rattle, with his new German orchestra, brought Thomas Adès’s Aquifer to vivid life in its UK premiere, and held the audience rapt in a lucid and light-on-its-feet reading of Bruckner’s fourth symphony

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Lucerne festival 2024 review – from blazing Bruckner to a Georgian wunderkind

Star turns by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Lisa Batiashvili and more delight, but much of this month-long festival’s power lies behind the scenes…

The Guardian - UK

Big Bruckner Weekend review – there’s no escaping the challenges of his music, as well as its pleasures

Back-to-back performances of the Austrian composer’s last three symphonies plus his ‘Great’ Mass and String Quintet celebrated Bruckner’s 200th anniversary

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Marx in London!; The Barber of Seville; LSO/ Stutzmann; RPO/ Petrenko – review

A day in the life of the father of communism is full of laughs in Scottish Opera’s new production of Jonathan Dove’s buoyant farce. Elsewhere, notable house debuts at ENO, a Bruckner double bill and Rachmaninov to remember

The Guardian - UK

‘He changed my life’: Tom Hiddleston, Rachel Weisz and more on Terence Davies

Terence Davies, who died last Saturday, was a visionary British director, who brought passion and eccentricity to every film. Actors including Jennifer Ehle, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale and Peter Mullan recall his unique style and sensitivity

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The week in classical: Prom 64: Les Troyens; Prom 65: Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony; Proms 62 & 63: The Rite by Heart– review

With a stand-in conductor and a stellar cast, Berlioz’s monumental opera came into its own at the Proms; the BBC Symphony Orchestra let Bruckner’s colours unfurl; and Aurora’s Stravinsky played from memory proved unforgettable

The Guardian - UK

Bruckner: Nine Symphonies review – Concertgebouw’s early gift is a conducting masterclass

In advance of Bruckner’s bicentenary, a roll call of tremendous historic interpretations is a timely reminder of this orchestra’s superb playing

The Guardian - UK

ABC documentary Knowing the Score charts Simone Young’s meteoric rise to become one of the world's top conductors

The story of Australia's greatest living conductor rivals the drama of Tár, but its real-life protagonist is relatively unknown. A new documentary for ABC TV wants to change that.

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Classical home listening: Paavo Järvi returns to Bruckner 7; I Giardini play Caroline Shaw

Järvi and the the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich hit a sweet spot in their Bruckner cycle. And Shaw’s work beguiles, whether on piano, cello or flower pots

The Guardian - UK

Missy Mazzoli’s ‘Orpheus Undone’ receives superb debut by CSO, Muti

“Orpheus Undone” is an intriguing, entrancing work with just the kind of fresh, imaginative sound world that we have come to expect of Mazzoli.

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