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Prom 8: BBCSO/Pons review – Maria Dueñas makes an assured and characterful debut

In a Spanish-flavoured programme, 20-year-old violinist Dueñas shone in Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole and the BBC Symphony under Josep Pons’s baton brought drama and delicacy to Debussy, Falla and Ravel’s Boléro

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2023

Penarth chamber music festival review – anticolonial poems and a moonstruck Pierrot

Unspoken harmony reigned among the group of chamber musicians who performed Ravel, Schönberg and Debussy at this delightful small festival

The Guardian - UK · Jul 9, 2023

"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 · Jul 7, 2023

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 · Feb 23, 2023

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.

France 24 · Jan 6, 2023

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 · Jan 5, 2023

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 · Jan 1, 2023

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 · Nov 29, 2022

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 · Oct 14, 2022

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 · Jul 5, 2022