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  • Portrait of Aigul Akhmetshina in a red gown with large frilly neckline.

    Album of the week
    Aigul Akhmetshina: Mujer Fatal – classy and sensual in music from Bizet to Britten and Bernstein

    The mezzo-soprano lends supple and elegant voice to art song and musical numbers that explore womanhood
  • A conductor with raises a baton while conducting an orchestra on stage

    Review
    The Song of Hiawatha – Rafael Payare reveals the riches of Coleridge-Taylor’s hit cantata

  • Composer Thea Musgrave smiles softly in a black velvet jacket before a green painting

    Tom Service on music
    ‘You’ll be sorry you told me this!’: the 98-year-old composer who gets musicians – even bassoonists - on their feet

    Tom Service
  • Conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson leads the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra and singers inside a cathedral

    Review
    Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra/Wilson – white-hot intensity as Verdi Requiem shakes St Paul’s vast dome

  • The cast of The Rake's Progress, singing while leaning towards the crowd on the edge of the V-shaped stage

    Opera review
    The Rake’s Progress – a young cast packed with promise do Stravinsky’s dance with the devil proud

  • Dressed in a suit, Anthony McGill plays the clarinet with players of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales around him

    Proms 2026 review
    BBCNOW/Bancroft – McGill is a stylish soloist in Kahane’s likable clarinet concerto

  • Portrait of conductor Pablo Heras-Casado.

    Album review
    Bruckner Symphony No 3 – Anima Eterna’s period instruments bring visceral drama

  • Donald Runnicles, Conductor © Bettina Stoess (2)

    BBCSSO/Runnicles review – resplendent recounting of Mahler’s fratricidal fairytale

  • A soprano sings passionately in a pink gown beside a conductor leading an orchestra

    Met Orchestra/Nézet-Séguin review – messy bonbons and a hero’s triumph in a classy all-Strauss lineup

  • Conductor Karina Canellakis and BBCSSO in Strauss’s Elektra

    BBCSSO/Canellakis review – electrifying trio of women unleash the horror in Strauss’s Elektra

  • A soloist plays a red bassoon at the BBC Proms, surrounded by seated cellists

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marquise Gilmore review – bassoon earns its spotlight in Thea Musgrave’s Out of the Darkness

  • Composer Donnacha Dennehy stands in a street with his arms folded

    Donnacha Dennehy: Limina album review – joyously unfettered music is a thrill in motion

  • Jacques Forestier sits on a block holding a violin, spotlighted against a gray backdrop

    Song & Dance album review – Jacques Forestier’s impressive debut has persuasive rhythmic poise

  • Anthony Hopkins in the recording hall with conductor Gustavo Dudamel.

    Anthony Hopkins: Life Is a Dream album review – easy on the ear melodies written from the heart

  • Composer Anders Hillborg portrait

    Hillborg: Lost Landscapes album review – sonic imagination and luminous colours

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  • Wynton Marsalis in a navy suit holds a trumpet while looking at the camera against a grey background

    Interview
    ‘Trumpeters? We think we’re the kings of the orchestra’: Wynton Marsalis prepares to blow the Edinburgh festival away

  • Anthony Hopkins

    News
    ‘Music was my first desire’: Anthony Hopkins releases single

  • Stephen Hough sits at a grand piano with sheet music open in his studio

    Dazzling, delightful – and unfairly dismissed: Stephen Hough on the art of the transcription

  • Benjamin Britten with raised baton stands before an orchestra and choir in a brick concert hall

    Philippe Sands
    The experience that coloured everything Britten went on to write

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  • Jennifer Davis (Reiza) and Rachael Wilson (Fatima) rehearsing Oberon by Weber, part of the BBC Proms @ Royal Albert Hall. Sir Mark Elder conductor and Emma Doherty director. (Opening 06-08-26) ©Tristram Kenton 08-26

    Liberated from its ludicrous libretto: how the magnificence of Oberon can be properly heard at last

  • Dancer Thulani Chauke warming up before the dress rehearsal of L’Orfeo by Monteverdi @ Glyndebourne. Directed by William Kentridge. Conductor, Jonathan Cohen. With the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Choreographer, Gregory Maqoma. Set Designer, Sabine Theunissen. Costume Designer, Greta Goiris. Lighting Designer, Urs Schönebaum. Video Designer, Janus Fouché. L’Orfeo is a co-production between Glyndebourne, the Metropolitan Opera and Greek National Opera. (Opening 14-06-26) ©Tristram Kenton 06-26

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