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Celebrated pianist and writer Alfred Brendel dies aged 94

Widely regarded as the ‘musicians’ musician’ Brendel was the first pianist to record all of Beethoven’s piano works during a much-garlanded career spanning 60 years

The Guardian - UK

The Lost Tapes, Beethoven sonatas 18,27, 28 & 31 album review – Richter always found something fresh to say

Sviatoslav Richter’s already huge catalogue is enriched by these rediscovered recordings of recitals of Beethoven’s piano sonatas from 1965

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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If You Can Score 25/25 On This People Specialty Quiz, You’re A Master Of Human Achievement

You probably recognize most of these names - Beethoven, Marie Curie, Frida Kahlo, maybe even Malala. Well, knowing someone’s name is one thing, but knowing what they actually did is another. This quiz is all about matching these 25 well-known people to their real specialty or field of expertise.

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From a Stardew Valley-like with a horrifying twist to an adventure from the artist behind Journey, these are the Day of the Devs SGF Edition 2025 games I need in my life

Opinion | Day of the Devs once again cemented itself as one of my favorite showcases with a host of games for my wishlist

GamesRadar

The worst Nineties comedies ranked, from Flubber to Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

THE COUNTDOWN: Not everything can be ‘The Big Lebowski’ or ‘Clueless’, as proven by the absolute trainwrecks that passed through cinemas in the Nineties billing themselves as comedies. Ed Power surveys the worst of them, from the Culkin-less ‘Home Alone 3’ to the Bill Cosby ghost film no one (thankfully)…

The Independent UK

“All the time he was ill, he had it in his head that he was going to finish it when he got home. He never made it home. I guess we owed it to him”: Tim Smith’s Cardiacs story will end with final album LSD

Members of the band who influenced Steven WIlson, Radiohead, Opeth, Andy Partridge and more explain what they did and why it mattered

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Armenian Haik Kazazyan wins top prize at inaugural Classic Violin Olympus competition in Dubai

From 12-to-1, Armenian violinist Haik Kazazyan has triumphed at the first-ever Classic Violin Olympus competition at Dubai’s Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, beating a world leading collection of classical music performers to win the coveted prize.

Euronews

Nicola Benedetti: Beethoven’s Violin Concerto album review – warm and deliciously playful throughout

Benedetti and the Aurora, who play from memory, have fun and freedom here, augmenting the role of the drum in an ebullient recording

The Guardian - UK

Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2 tops Classic FM poll for third year

The piece took the number one slot in the annual Classic FM Hall Of Fame ballot, with 90,000 votes cast by the public.

The Independent UK

Dubai’s InClassica International Music Festival returns with composer Alexey Shor at centre stage

The city of superlatives is a symphony of triumphs – and now classical music is in the Dubai spotlight once more.

Euronews

Missa Solemnis review – glorious and memorable Beethoven

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the National Chorus of Wales and the solo quartet made the complex and demanding great mass soar

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

RPO/Giltburg/Petrenko review – intimate Beethoven and exhilarating Stravinsky from an orchestra on top form

In the first of the Royal Philharmonic’s Lights in the Dark series, Boris Giltburg’s Emperor Concerto had delicacy and grace, and the Rite of Spring and Berg's Three Pieces for Orchestra were persuasive and lovingly shaped

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Guitar World

“When I got into Miles Davis' band, playing like my idols – Jaco, Stanley and Larry Graham – wasn't going to work. I had to dig and find something else”: How Marcus Miller found his voice – and became one of the most-imitated bassists in the biz

The bass icon breaks down his formative influences, and how he gave everyone from Prince to Beethoven a low-end makeover via his '77 Fender Jazz

The Guardian - UK

Nils Frahm: ‘Using a chainsaw gave me strength in my fingers for piano’

The composer, 42, talks about his musical upbringing, passion for dish-washing, insistence on being modern and fear of not being loved

The Guardian - UK

‘That’s the Christmas No 1!’ How East 17 made festive favourite Stay Another Day

Brian Harvey said, ‘I’m not singing this shit!’ – and threw his headphones on the floor. It took two days to get the performance out of him

Guitar World

“We don’t want to be an old-school death metal band. But if you say ‘progressive death metal’, people expect hyper-sweeps and polyrhythms”: How Blood Incantation fused B.C. Rich, doom and David Gilmour to make one of 2024’s most talked-about metal albums

Metal Hammer named Absolute Elsewhere their album of the year. Paul Riedl and Morris Kolontyrsky explain how they made their masterpiece at the studio beloved by David Bowie, weaving ’70s prog and krautrock into death metal, and how to make a B.C. Rich sound like a Strat

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From exquisite Elgar to razor-sharp Cage: our classical recordings of the year

A piano prodigy burst onto the scene, studio opera recordings were few and far between – and the year’s most rewarding discs were the ones that ventured beyond the mainstream

The Guardian - UK

Man, 88, passes grade 8 piano with distinction, 67 years after taking grade 7

Ray Eveleigh says playing helps keep his brain active and wife and daughter encouraged him to go for grade 8

MusicRadar

“Most of the classical venues have a very arrogant attitude towards pop music, which is what I’m considered to be by most of them”: Nils Frahm hits out at genre snobbery

“Most of the classical venues have a very arrogant attitude towards pop music, which is what I’m considered to be by most of them”

The Guardian - UK

Let’s talk about Tokaji, the Hungarian wine that inspired Beethoven and Goethe

Its distinctive sweetness with contrasting acidity is still inspirational today

MusicRadar

“I failed because a term has been created around the type of music I make”: Nils Frahm on struggling within the classical music space and navigating the live world

“I failed because a term has been created around the type of music I make”

The Guardian - UK

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal/Payare review – colour, pace and silky strings

The North American musicians and their Venezuelan conductor brought a programme of Habibi, Berlioz and Beethoven – with Javier Perianes the soloist in his first piano concerto – to London

The Guardian - UK

Takács Quartet review – a superlative performance in which the music never sits still

Britten’s second string quartet was framed by forward-looking works by Haydn and Beethoven with each work sounding fresh in an entrancing concert

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