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THE TRUTH ABOUT: 2 - The Untold Story

"Musically Scheherazade And Other Stories is the one.” Annie Haslam on Renaissance's 1975 masterpiece

The inside story of Renaissance's 1975 classic album Scheherazade And Other Stories

Louder

Hans Abrahamsen: Left, Alone review – a thrilling and beguiling one-hander

Tamara Stefanovich’s piano threads delicately through glittering orchestral textures in the concerto for left hand only, paired here with the jewel-like miniatures of Ten Sinfonias

The Guardian - UK

Les Siècles review – Raw, radical and revelatory as Roth’s period band thrills

François-Xavier Roth led an exhilarating and illuminating programme that moved through 80 years of French music, from Berlioz to Boulanger

The Guardian - UK

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Benjamin Grosvenor review – pianist’s virtuosity preferences power over pastel colours

An ambitious programme that ranged from Busoni’s Bach to Prokofiev confirmed why the pianist is a favourite here

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

Enescu: Works for Piano review – committed and accomplished performances

Three of the Romanian composer’s underperformed, muscular works for piano are superbly interpreted by the young pianist Daria Parkhomenko

The Guardian - UK

Bulgarian pianist Maria Martinova on her new album 'Nuit et Jour'

Bulgarian pianist Maria Martinova joins us to talk about music from her new album "Nuit et Jour" (''Night and Day"), which revisits works from Debussy, Ravel and Zanon. She was a child prodigy in Bulgaria and she has trained all over the world, including at London's Royal Academy of Music.

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Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets review – witty scenes of 20s Paris and gossamer delicacy

A long-awaited recording of Ravel is accompanied by Stephen Hough’s composition, absurdist vignettes of Paris

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

The Guardian - UK

BBCNOW/Jeannin review – exultant Ravel and extravagant Stravinsky

Making her debut with the National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, Swedish conductor Sofi Jeannin controlled their massive sonorities with quiet authority

The Guardian - UK

Composer Lei Liang and Scripps oceanographers take deep dive in Arctic to create game-changing 'Six Seasons'

SAN DIEGO — Groundbreaking composer Lei Liang has never been to the Arctic or to its Chukchi Sea, which sits between Alaska and Siberia. But that imposing 240,000-square-mile body of water's beneath-the-surface sounds not only inspired his provocative new work, "Six Seasons," they are an intrinsic and very audible part…

Tribune News Service

Pick of the BBC Proms 2022: Presenters on the concerts they can’t wait to see

From the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, to a celebration of Aretha Franklin and the music of video games, BBC TV presenters on the Proms not to miss this summer

Evening Standard

Koechlin: The Seven Stars Symphony; Vers la Voûte Etoilée review – dazzling display of orchestral imagination

An elegant performance to match the beauty and refinement of this bafflingly neglected master of 20th-century music

The Guardian - UK

LPO/Gardner review – timely celebration of the brilliance of Oliver Knussen

The LPO’s celebration of the late composer included a superbly assured performance of his Horn Concerto by the 19-year-old Annemarie Federle, a last-minute replacement. Glittering Ravel and sequences from Britten’s only ballet followed.

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Kamila Valieva ordeal leaves champion Anna Shcherbakova with ’emptiness inside’

Fifteen-year-old Valieva fell twice and made several more errors in her free skate to Ravel’s Bolero as she missed out on an Olympic medal

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