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Paavo Järvi to succeed Edward Gardner at helm of London Philharmonic

The Estonian will take over as chief conductor of ‘this wonderful historic orchestra’ from the 2028/29 season, when Gardner’s current contract ends

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‘That make-or-break feeling? I love it’: can André de Ridder put ENO back on its feet?

Budgets have been slashed, morale is through the floor and the company has been forced to find a second base in Manchester. But the new musical director is up for a challenge. We meet the man with the hardest job in music

The Guardian - UK

Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius album review – Gardner and the LPO’s reading is bold and dramatic

Recorded live at the BBC Proms, Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s propulsive performance, with soloists Allan Clayton, Jamie Barton and James Platt, is one to cherish

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London Philharmonic Orchestra/ Gardner review – muscular Emperor sets up edge-of-the-seat finale

The LPO season opener saw Yefim Bronfman on keen form in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 5, before the orchestra delivered a white-hot, bittersweet Tchaikovsky Fifth

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Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto; Helios; Symphony No 5 album review – suavity and elegance from Gardner’s Bergen Phil

The teeming textures of Nielsen’s 5th symphony are controlled with care and refinement by Edward Gardner, with the Bergen Philharmonic – and soloist Alessandro Carbonare – outstanding

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LPO/Gardner/Akhmetshina review – Tippett’s rose lake sounds glorious

Star mezzo Aigul Akhmetshina shone in Ravel’s Shéhérazade, part of a vivid London Philharmonic programme of music evoking fairytales and far horizons

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Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Winter Words (arr Holloway), etc album review – confirms Gardner’s status as an outstanding conductor of Britten

The first recording of Robin Holloway’s imaginative orchestration of the song cycle Winter Words is fascinating, and completes a superb new disc of Britten’s music

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Mahler 8 at the Multitudes festival: 'five stars, if not for the screensaver visuals'

4/5 The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner, excel at Mahler’s 8th but the experimental video accompaniment was only partially successful

Evening Standard

Circa/LPO/Gardner review – Exhilarating, exquisite and extraordinary as Ravel melds with acrobatics

Multitudes festival opened with a stunningly effective collaboration between the Australian circus company and the London Philharmonic Orchestra

The Guardian - UK

Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer album review – Davidsen’s Senta is spine-tingling

The Norwegian soprano dominates in this recording taken from concert performances in which Finley’s Dutchman feels somewhat underpowered

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Conductor Edward Gardner says he ‘regrets’ calling Italian opera singers mafia

Mayor of Naples called Gardner’s comments ‘completely unfounded’

The Independent UK

Conductor Edward Gardner ‘regrets’ mafia comments about Italian opera singers

The London Philharmonic Orchestra principal conductor was speaking about his debut at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.

Evening Standard

The week in classical: Festen; Das Rheingold review – a dark, jubilant, five-star Turnage triumph

Daring, lyrical and brilliantly achieved, Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new opera is his best work yet. Plus, knockout Wagner on a shoestring

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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem album review – humanist masterpiece remains earthbound

Baritone Brian Mulligan impresses in Edward Gardner’s recording that is stronger on the work’s consolation than its celebration

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Tippett: Piano Concerto; Symphony No 2 album review – the energy of the music is irrepressible

Edward Gardner conducts first-rate performances of two rarely recorded works, bringing Tippett’s musical language into sharp focus

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LPO/Gardner/Ólafsson review – fierce Brahms and a rich Waley-Cohen premiere

Vikingur Ólafsson’s performance of Brahms’s first piano concerto was the evening’s main attraction, but those who left at the interval missed the world premiere of Freya Waley-Cohen’s ambitious and rich Mother Tongue

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Joyce DiDonato sings Berlioz review – you could almost feel the asp’s poison seeping into her veins

The mezzo-soprano’s hair-raising performance of The Death of Cleopatra was a tour de force, a suitable curtain-raiser for the LPO’s new season, with Edward Gardner and orchestra on fine form

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Prom 23: Benjamin Grosvenor/LPO/Gardner review – heroically committed extreme pianism

Grosvenor’s special performance of Busoni’s Piano Concerto made vivid its sheer profusion of musical ideas and ferociously difficult solo part with immense skill

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Prom 23: Busoni's Piano Concerto at the Royal Albert Hall review – Benjamin Grosvenor's playing rippled and thundered

This was the first performance of the fiendishly difficult concerto at the Proms in 36 years

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Gardner/LPO review – tautly controlled Tippett, and whoops for Seong-Jin Cho’

The starry Korean pianist’s account of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto was joyous and compelling, while Gardner made a persuasive case for Tippett’s divisive second symphony

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The Seven Deadly Sins review – LPO play Brecht and Weill with bite and swing

Danielle de Niese took on twinned roles of dancer and singer Anna with great style, the evening introduced by João Barradas’s fiery accordion

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Dance Reimagined review – LPO and Wayne McGregor are a dream team, but AI lets them down

Tonight’s Tania León premiere and reconceptualised Szymanowski ballet made a heady combination, with no need for technical trickery

The Independent UK

English National Opera cuts risk ‘killing off of art form’, warn prominent music directors

Former ENO conductors Edward Gardner, Sir Mark Elder and the Royal Opera House’s Sir Antonio Pappano said cuts would make company ‘an empty shell of its former self’

The Guardian - UK

Prom 36 A Space Odyssey: LPO/Gardner review – unsettling and awesome

Intense and finely focused performances of the Ligeti and Strauss pieces used in Kubrick’s sci-fi epic revealed every detail of their unearthly majesty and awesome extremes

The Guardian - UK

Turbocharge philanthropy, conga to Beethoven, ditch the ukuleles: 10 ways to save classical music

After cuts by Arts Council England and the BBC, Simon Rattle says UK opera houses and orchestras have never faced greater peril. How can they fight back? Top musicians outline their battle plans

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