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Young artists bring passion in new performance series

The Royal Bangkok Symphony Music School (RBSS) is steadily expanding its contribution to Bangkok's cultural life. Beyond nurturing the next generation of musicians, it has created Sounds On Wireless, a music performance series that brings together performance, education and audience engagement in equal measure.

Bangkok Post

Sounds On Wireless readies an afternoon 'Love Triangle'

Royal Bangkok Symphony Music School presents "Love Triangle", an afternoon of chamber music by Brahms and the Schumanns, at 140 Wireless, Witthayu Road, on Saturday at 4pm.

Bangkok Post

Quality quintet

The Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra Piano Quintet presented an intimate and elegant chamber music evening on Saturday at 140 Wireless, set amidst Bangkok's evolving Lumpini–Wireless Road cultural quarter. Elegant yet relaxed, contemporary yet welcoming, the space was bathed in soft natural light filtering through its surrounding glass façade.

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Helen Charlston: A Poet’s Love album review – original and absorbing

Schumann’s Dichterliebe is at the heart of this disc from the mezzo-soprano and pianist Sholto Kynoch; Heloise Werner’s new work Knight’s Dream is a rich and intriguing companion piece

The Guardian - UK

The Wigmore Hall at 125: a celebration of one of our best classical venues

IN FOCUS: The hall went through a relatively barren patch in the 1970s but since then its reputation as a centre for the best chamber music has climbed steadily, writes Simon Mundy

The Independent UK

Happy Birthday György Kurtág! Legendary Hungarian composer hits 100

György Kurtág, one of the most important artist of contemporary classical music is being celebrated all around the world to mark his 100th birthday.

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Dara Birnbaum obituary

Pioneering American video, installation and media artist who used television as her enduring material

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Twilight: Schumann Songs album review – treasures galore from vivid and sensitive Ian Bostridge

Tenor Ian Bostridge brings wonderful clarity and sensitivity to this collection that includes all of Schumann’s greatest song-cycles

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: The Flying Dutchman; LSO/Harding, Trifonov; The Marriage of Figaro – review

Grand Theatre Leeds; Barbican; Coliseum, LondonAs funding cuts start to bite, Opera North’s forces pull together in an asylum-themed take on Wagner

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Harding/Trifonov review – nuanced and individual Schumann, then propulsive Mahler

Making a much-anticipated London appearance, Daniil Trifonov balanced lyricism and vigour in Schumann. Daniel Harding’s well-judged account of Mahler 7 caught the symphony’s sense of impending disintegration

The Guardian - UK

Schumann: Works for Oboe and Piano album review – beautifully effective reinventions

This eight-work record, some pieces arranged by Daniel, is a dream – despite most of the pieces not being originally written for the performers’ instruments

The Guardian - UK

Violinist Alena Baeva: 'We need to escape to our imaginary worlds'

Violinist Alena Baeva is Russian, Luxembourgish Polish and Ukrainian. With her Ukrainian husband, the pianist Vadym Kholodenko, she has just released a new album entitled "Fantasy", which revisits dream-tinted music by Franz Schubert, Igor Stravinsky, Robert Schumann and Olivier Messiaen. The duo are currently touring the record and the award-winning…

France 24

The week in classical: La bohème; Family Ties: The Schumanns and the Mendelssohns; Treske Quartet – review

Royal Opera House; Queen Elizabeth Hall; Conway Hall, LondonPuccini’s genius shines through as his centenary year gets under way. Elsewhere, a good week for the Mendelssohns, and a Carrot Revolution

The Guardian - UK

Javier Perianes review – Granados’s Goyescas has rare outing but colours remain dim

Perianes has the agility and stamina to take on Granados’s piece but his realisation of the epic piano work didn’t have enough colour or character

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Best supporting players: Brahms and the Schumanns

Brahms’s friendship with Robert Schumann was brief – but life-changing, while he and Clara supported and inspired each other to the end of their days. Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor on the trio’s musical and personal connections

The Guardian - UK

Classical home listening: Kitty Whately and Joseph Middleton; Beatrice Rana plays Clara Wieck and Robert Schumann

Lesser-known composers take centre stage in the mezzo-pianist duo’s lieder recital, while the Italian star dazzles in a wife-and-husband piano double bill

Newcastle Herald

Top talent at Newcastle Music Festival

Tamara-Anna Cislowska plays first show on July 29

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Jonas Kaufmann/Diana Damrau/Helmut Deutsch; Royal Academy Opera

The peerless tenor and his companion turn Schumann and Brahms’s romantic duets into tiny operas, while the Royal Academy’s rising stars enchant… and mystify

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