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LPO/Canellakis review – poetic Beethoven and a clear, if careful, take on Shostakovich’s wartorn masterpiece

Karina Canellakis gave the Soviet-era symphony an eerie resonance, while soloist Jonathan Biss was at his poetic best in Beethoven’s second piano concerto

The Guardian - UK

Paul McCartney fans in Newcastle express emotions ahead of show

'It's like seeing Beethoven. Paul is living music history.'

Newcastle Herald

Beethoven: String Quartets album review – Chiaroscuro Quartet’s versions are unforced and striking

The period-instrument quartets recording of Beethoven’s Ops 74 and 130 offers many rewards

The Guardian - UK

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Even Beethoven got bad reviews. John Malkovich reads them aloud as 'The Music Critic'

A new live stage show features actor John Malkovich transformed into some of the meanest music critics ever — in real reviews skewering the work of great composers like Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin.

WEKU

Gold vinyl for aliens may outlive humanity

Letter: This record of our existence is now gliding through space, way beyond our solar system – we may as well forget about it, writes Antony Barlow

The Guardian - UK

‘The rockets didn’t stop us’: Odesa violinist gears up for symbolic concert

Kyrylo Markiv, whose instrument was nearly destroyed in Russian attack, to perform in Berlin to mark Independence Day

The Guardian - UK

Tony Visconti says he doesn’t admire any modern producers because they’re making “bullshit records with loops”

“Everything’s sampled,” he says. “I think old-school production with a band is the only way to make great records”

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Prom 39 at the Royal Albert Hall: Budapest Festival Orchestra put on a night of surprises and spontaneity

The programme of Ligeti, Bartók and Beethoven included a virtuoso performance by soprano Anna-Lena Elbert

Evening Standard

‘The human stories behind the music we love’: Radio 3’s Composer of the Week turns 80

As the BBC programme celebrates a milestone, Donald Macleod – in the presenter’s chair for almost 25 years – reflects on its storytelling power and shares his own tales of Hollywood and handstands

The Guardian - UK

So close you can see his scallops: behold Yngwie Malmsteen’s chops in greater detail than ever before with this astonishing multi-cam footage of Far Beyond the Sun

The exclusive performance heralds the launch of MaestroClass, a new 10-song lesson series with TrueFire

Guitar World

Mao Fujita review – fresh and elegant Mozart from young Japanese star

In the first of five recitals of Mozart piano works the 24-year-old pianist found proportion and purpose to music that clearly means a great deal to him

The Guardian - UK

Ingrid Haebler obituary

Quintessentially Viennese pianist who brought delicacy and charm to her performances of Mozart and Schubert

The Guardian - UK

Muti ends 13 seasons with Chicago Symphony Orchestra with praise and honors — and Beethoven

Riccardo Muti has ended 13 seasons as Chicago Symphony Orchestra's music director with praise and a series of honors

The Independent UK

Steve Harley: The soundtrack of my life

Singer and songwriter Steve Harley picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the song that reminds him of his first love, Glenda White from Wickford

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Riccardo Muti: ‘I leave the position of music director knowing that I have done my best’

The world-renowned conductor, who is stepping down from his post with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra later this month, plans to return to the podium at Symphony Center, but less frequently and without the demands of being the orchestra’s music director.

The Guardian - UK

French Open: Swiatek beats Haddad Maia to set up final with Muchova – as it happened

Karolina Muchova upset Aryna Sabalenka in a three-set classic and will meet Iga Swiatek in the final, the defending champion and world No 1, seeing off Beatriz Haddad Maia in another fine match

The Guardian - UK

Hallé orchestra/Stasevska review – Beethoven’s wit and Sibelius’s passion

A programme of Sibelius, Andrea Tarrodi and Beethoven – with soloists Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Benjamin Grosvenor and Hyeyoon Park – saw the Hallé on magnificent form, conducted with flair and grace

Newcastle Herald

Ohlsson takes up Australian challege

The old classics die hard.

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Piano man Garrick Ohlsson takes up Aussie challege

The old classics die hard.

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

Daily Mirror

Train stations will play classical music to scare yobs away after successful trial

Northern Rail says it has been playing composers such as Bach and Beethoven in railway stations and has already seen a dramatic fall in anti-social behaviour

The Canberra Times

Canberra festival with a child's heart

The Director of the Canberra International Music Festival fizzes with enthusiasm

The Independent UK

Rachmaninov tops Classic FM poll on 150th anniversary of birth

It was also a record year for film music.

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: London Symphony Orchestra/Noseda; Down the Rabbit Hole – review

Gianandrea Noseda and the LSO go to the edge with Shostakovich. Plus, an operatic trip to Wonderland for deaf and hard-of-hearing children

The Guardian - UK

‘Anything is possible’: why Iceland has become a classical music powerhouse

Outstanding new composers and genre-hopping experiments are not the sole reasons the Iceland Symphony Orchestra’s UK tour is so anticipated – the country itself is a seed bed for musical talent

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