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Alfred Brendel obituary

One of the greatest pianists of his generation who bestrode the musical world for six decades

The Guardian - UK

"Ritchie Blackmore gave me a wave as he fell backwards. That was my cue to do a ten-minute keyboard solo": Don Airey on Rainbow, Deep Purple and his awesome solo album Pushed To The Edge

Deep Purple keyboard player, go-to session guy and solo artist Don Airey on his new album, touring, Purple, Blackmore and more

Louder

‘In his company you could not be lazy’: remembering my friend Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

A giant of African literature whose best works existed between the political and the personal, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was warm, funny and friendly – and liked to bet on my pool games

The Guardian - UK

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The Best of the 2025 BBC Proms: 20 picks, from Chineke! to Mozart

As the Proms head back to London, another season of music variety beckons. Nick Kimberley picks out the ones worth grabbing tickets for

Evening Standard

Pimpinone review – hot-to-trot comic opera from the underperformed Telemann

Isabela Díaz has great fun as chambermaid Vespetta and Grisha Martirosyan is laugh-out-loud funny as nice-but-dim Pimpinone in a tale of sexual politics not a million miles from our own time

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Peter Grimes; Parsifal; Yunchan Lim – review

Depleted yet straining every sinew, Welsh National Opera deliver a formidable new Peter Grimes. Elsewhere, down the aisle with Wagner and fearless Bach from the world’s next great pianist

The Guardian - UK

“I can write anything... Just tell me what you want. You want death metal in C? Okay, here it is. A little country and western? Reggae, blues, whatever”: Yngwie Malmsteen on classical epiphanies, modern art and why he embraces the cliff edge

Having celebrated 40 years as a solo artist who planted the neoclassical flag atop rock's mountain, Mr Malmsteen reflects on his evolution, tastes in art, and encourages all to take a creative risk

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Yunchan Lim review – young pianist’s Bach dazzles and intrigues

In the Korean musician’s first UK performance of the Goldberg Variations his playing felt simultaneously spontaneous and impeccably thought throug

The Guardian - UK

'Spiritually intense': St Matthew Passion, OAE/Cohen at Royal Festival Hall

4/5 The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under the direction of Jonathan Cohen deliver a powerfully dramatic performance

Evening Standard

PC prices up at least 20%: Trump Tariffs may hurt U.S. system integrators most

Boutique PC builders like Maingear and Falcon Northwest bear the brunt of the costs.

Tom’s Hardware

Guiding light in the sky inspires musical composition

Troy Russell incorporates Indigenous stories and ideas into his compositions and his work honouring the history of Venus, or the morning star, is no different.

AAP

“Those arpeggios... That was the sickest thing I ever heard”: Yngwie Malmsteen on why guitarists should take inspiration from players of other instruments if they want to develop their own style

Plenty of players have impressed Malmsteen, but it was a solo violin performance that would have the biggest influence on his lead style

MusicRadar

Colin Tilney obituary

Harpsichordist who recorded the instrument’s major works and encouraged new pieces for early keyboards

The Guardian - UK

“Want to scare people these days? Forget about Satan and drugs. Bring on the evolutionary biologist”: Nightwish were accused of seeking to shock by working with Richard Dawkins. Instead they explored the poetry of science

Endless Forms Most Beautiful started with a handwritten letter and resulted in an extraordinary, inspiring concept album – plus the professor’s first-ever prog performance at Wembley Arena

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The Guardian - UK

Figure: Side By Side review – spikily stylish baroque and contemporary music

Stone Nest, LondonVivaldi and Handel shadow-boxed with Caroline Shaw and Joanna Ward in this ambitious, punchy concert

The Guardian - UK

Argerich/Maisky/Ivanov review – legendary pianist brings her irrepressible brilliance to chamber music programme

Martha Argerich joined with Mischa Maisky and Yossif Ivanov to perform music by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Schubert, but it was her solo Bach that was a special evening’s particular highlight

The Guardian - US

Los Angeles musicians lost homes, studios and instruments: ‘A part of you is gone’

From the piano used for The Wizard of Oz to backyard studios, losses have performers and composers concerned for the future

The Guardian - UK

Jacob Collier/Chris Thile/Britten Sinfonia review – Bach to Beatles and mass harmonies as virtuosic pair delight

An enjoyably varied programme took in Piazzolla, Samuel Barber and Queen with Suzie Collier conducting the Britten Sinfonia, but the musical fireworks were all courtesy of her son Jacob and mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile

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Nils Frahm: ‘Using a chainsaw gave me strength in my fingers for piano’

The composer, 42, talks about his musical upbringing, passion for dish-washing, insistence on being modern and fear of not being loved

Guitar World

“Bach was one of the only guys who really understood the range of the bass. All his cello pieces are right in the 5-string bass range”: John Myung plays for one of rock’s most ambitious bands, and he’s tackling the challenge with extraordinary discipline

The Dream Theater maestro explains what every bassist can learn from Bach, how he developed the Bongo 6-string bass with Ernie Ball, and why he runs a Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier on bass…

The Guardian - UK

Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/Rousset review – joyous and immaculate festive programme

Under the baton of Christophe Rousset, the Monteverdis sounded exquisite in a celebration of Advent that balanced reflection with exultation

The Guardian - UK

Man, 88, passes grade 8 piano with distinction, 67 years after taking grade 7

Ray Eveleigh says playing helps keep his brain active and wife and daughter encouraged him to go for grade 8

The Guardian - UK

A moment that changed me: I was loving life as a cellist – then something snapped in my arm

As a teenager with a scholarship to a prestigious music school, I was looking forward to a future playing Dvořák, Shostakovich and Elgar. Then came the injury that shattered my dreams

MusicRadar

“Most of the classical venues have a very arrogant attitude towards pop music, which is what I’m considered to be by most of them”: Nils Frahm hits out at genre snobbery

“Most of the classical venues have a very arrogant attitude towards pop music, which is what I’m considered to be by most of them”

The Independent UK

From Bach to Beyonce, why a church orchestra aims to lift up young musicians of color

The Black pastor of a multiethnic congregation in Anaheim, California, has started a string orchestra for young musicians of color

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