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Or, the Whale album review – Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee collaboration offers intimacy and joy

These eight tracks, a mix of new compositions and arrangements of existing work, are tender and imaginative

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a symbol of hope and defiance for Ume Sámi and its speakers’: singer Katarina Barruk on her Proms debut

Joiking comes to the Proms this weekend in a collaboration between Katarina Barruk and violinist Pekka Kuusisto. The two tell us how they have enriched each other’s musical worlds

The Guardian - UK

Rhode Island man faces charges after threatening to kill Trump, Bondi and Stephen Miller on Truth Social

Law enforcement discovered the man ‘hiding in the bathtub’

The Independent UK

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The 10 best contemporary albums of 2024

Astrid Sonne’s sonic odyssey led her to Auto-Tune experiments, Caroline Shaw took Emily Dickinson into junkyard hip-hop and Nala Sinephro went space-age

The Guardian - UK

QOA: Sauco review – electro-acoustic jewels incorporate the sounds of nature

From the meditative serenity of waterfalls, birdsong and pulsing animal heartbeats to galloping tribal drums and rave-like samples, this is a pleasingly random collage

The Guardian - UK

Rectangles and Circumstance album review – collaborative and gleefully eclectic collection

All five musicians share writing and performing duties on these 10 songs. The closing version of Schubert’s An die Musik is mesmerisingly beautiful

The Guardian - UK

BBCNOW/Guerrero review – a Caroline Shaw premiere that shoots for the moon and stars

Woodwinds glinted and flickered in Shaw’s The Observatory, while soloist Sergio Tiempo brought dynamic bravura to Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G

The Guardian - UK

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Sinfonia Cymru review – US female composers shine under Vale of Glamorgan festival spotlight

A programme of Caroline Shaw, Augusta Read Thomas, Lera Auerbach and Gabriela Lena Frank offered richly coloured and moving music, expressively played by Sinfonia Cymru

The Guardian - UK

Attacca Quartet at King’s Place review: intense and aggressively forward

From Mozart to Star Wars, the New York-based quartet gave it their all

Evening Standard

At Lyric Opera, ‘Proximity’ is quite possibly an unprecedented approach to short opera trilogies

In a radical departure, the three new operas featured in ‘Proximity’ are not being treated as stand-alone pieces presented in succession, but are interwoven.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘It takes a community to develop a musician’: the Royal Philharmonic Society’s John Gilhooly

In an edited extract from his speech at the 2023 Royal Philharmonic awards, its chairman urges joined up thinking to ensure a healthy future for an art form that is central to the wellbeing and prosperity of our national life

The Guardian - UK

Over 30 NHS hospitals and buildings could 'collapse without warning' - see full list

More than 30 NHS buildings and hospitals are constructed with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, a material compared to 'chocolate aero' that has long passed the end of its lifespan. The cost of repair is more than £1 billion - with replacement billions more

Daily Mirror

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

Feed your soul: the 31-day classical music diet for January

From gentle awakening to explosive fanfare, duelling pianos to one chill lone voice, expand your horizons with a month’s worth of classical ear-openers

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Caroline Shaw/Sō Percussion review – fresh and inventive, from Abba to chopsticks and thimbles

Gleefully trampling across genre boundaries, the composer-vocalist and the percussion group deliver a nimble range of styles

The Guardian - UK

Classical home listening: Víkingur Ólafsson takes two; Caroline Shaw looks up

First on grand, then upright piano, the Icelandic star maps his life in music, while Shaw and Attacca Quartet take on nature and language to compelling effect

The Guardian - UK

Hekla: Xiuxiuejar review – reclaiming the unique appeal of the theremin

The Soviet-era electronic instrument is often used as an exotic novelty, but the Icelandic musician unleashes its real potential

Daily Mirror

BBC Marriage viewers mute TV as 'awful' show element returns in Sean Bean drama

BBC's new drama Marriage stars Sean Bean and Nicola Walker as married couple Ian and Emma - but viewers have been left unimpressed by the show's theme tune

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The new Afro wigs being made for cancer patients

As The Little Princess Trust starts accepting Afro hair donations for the first time, London’s oldest wig-maker, Raoul, has been at the heart of changing practices, finds Keeks Reid

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