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BBCPhil/Weilerstein/Fröst; Arvo Pärt at 90 review – star clarinettist captivates and delights

The evening’s two proms brought wildly contrasting energies. The BBC Phil were on blistering form and, late-night, the Estonian Philharmonic Choir were immaculate even if the programme felt a little bland

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: tailoring comedy Alterations gets a fitting tribute

Pin-sharp comedy from the National Theatre’s Black Plays Archive, a 12-hour ‘theatre-rave’ and Rachel Zegler’s balcony performance of Don’t Cry for Me Argentina are among this month’s highlights

The Guardian - UK

BBCSSO/Wigglesworth/Batsashvili review – detailed and monumental Bruckner

The BBC Scottish chief conductor’s reading of Bruckner’s Seventh was thoughtful and balanced. Mariam Batsashvili was an enthralling soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 20.

The Guardian - UK

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The god of small things: celebrating Arvo Pärt at 90

The Estonian composer’s music of simplicity, spirituality – and silence – is universally appealing and enduringly rewarding. We pay tribute ahead of his milestone birthday

The Guardian - UK

Roger Norrington: a maverick, an irresistible firebrand and a musical visionary

The conductor, whose historically informed evangelism helped transform the classical music world, has died. Tom Service remembers a man who looked to the past to find a fresh and thrilling present.

The Guardian - UK

‘I gave Tom Cruise an impromptu organ lesson!’ Anna Lapwood on her classical mashups – and her all-night Prom

She is the hottest property in classical music, a dazzling musician who can play Bach one minute and mix up Robbie Williams the next. Will her epic ‘explosion of energy’ Prom blow the Albert Hall roof off?

The Guardian - UK

Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues Op 87 album review – Avdeeva brings a light touch in an accomplished performance

It’s fascinating to compare this nuanced set with the performance by the Soviet pianist who inspired Shostakovich in 1950

The Guardian - UK

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The 12-year-old boy who set up a charity for musicians to play songs to animals stuck in shelters

While the calming effect of music on humans is well-documented, its precise role in animal behaviour remains a subject of ongoing research.

The Independent UK

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

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

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MusicRadar

“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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

'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

Tom’s Hardware

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.

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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.

MusicRadar

“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

The Guardian - UK

Colin Tilney obituary

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

Metal Hammer

“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

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

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