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Armenian Haik Kazazyan wins top prize at inaugural Classic Violin Olympus competition in Dubai

From 12-to-1, Armenian violinist Haik Kazazyan has triumphed at the first-ever Classic Violin Olympus competition at Dubai’s Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, beating a world leading collection of classical music performers to win the coveted prize.

Euronews

Nicola Benedetti: Beethoven’s Violin Concerto album review – warm and deliciously playful throughout

Benedetti and the Aurora, who play from memory, have fun and freedom here, augmenting the role of the drum in an ebullient recording

The Guardian - UK

Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2 tops Classic FM poll for third year

The piece took the number one slot in the annual Classic FM Hall Of Fame ballot, with 90,000 votes cast by the public.

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Dubai’s InClassica International Music Festival returns with composer Alexey Shor at centre stage

The city of superlatives is a symphony of triumphs – and now classical music is in the Dubai spotlight once more.

Euronews

Missa Solemnis review – glorious and memorable Beethoven

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the National Chorus of Wales and the solo quartet made the complex and demanding great mass soar

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on 20th-century composers: play it again, maestro

Radio 3’s celebration of Pierre Boulez is a chance to revisit “difficult” music and break down divisions between old and new styles

The Guardian - UK

RPO/Giltburg/Petrenko review – intimate Beethoven and exhilarating Stravinsky from an orchestra on top form

In the first of the Royal Philharmonic’s Lights in the Dark series, Boris Giltburg’s Emperor Concerto had delicacy and grace, and the Rite of Spring and Berg's Three Pieces for Orchestra were persuasive and lovingly shaped

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“When I got into Miles Davis' band, playing like my idols – Jaco, Stanley and Larry Graham – wasn't going to work. I had to dig and find something else”: How Marcus Miller found his voice – and became one of the most-imitated bassists in the biz

The bass icon breaks down his formative influences, and how he gave everyone from Prince to Beethoven a low-end makeover via his '77 Fender Jazz

Guitar World

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

The Guardian - UK

‘That’s the Christmas No 1!’ How East 17 made festive favourite Stay Another Day

Brian Harvey said, ‘I’m not singing this shit!’ – and threw his headphones on the floor. It took two days to get the performance out of him

The Guardian - UK

“We don’t want to be an old-school death metal band. But if you say ‘progressive death metal’, people expect hyper-sweeps and polyrhythms”: How Blood Incantation fused B.C. Rich, doom and David Gilmour to make one of 2024’s most talked-about metal albums

Metal Hammer named Absolute Elsewhere their album of the year. Paul Riedl and Morris Kolontyrsky explain how they made their masterpiece at the studio beloved by David Bowie, weaving ’70s prog and krautrock into death metal, and how to make a B.C. Rich sound like a Strat

Guitar World

From exquisite Elgar to razor-sharp Cage: our classical recordings of the year

A piano prodigy burst onto the scene, studio opera recordings were few and far between – and the year’s most rewarding discs were the ones that ventured beyond the mainstream

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

“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”

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The Guardian - UK

Let’s talk about Tokaji, the Hungarian wine that inspired Beethoven and Goethe

Its distinctive sweetness with contrasting acidity is still inspirational today

MusicRadar

“I failed because a term has been created around the type of music I make”: Nils Frahm on struggling within the classical music space and navigating the live world

“I failed because a term has been created around the type of music I make”

The Guardian - UK

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal/Payare review – colour, pace and silky strings

The North American musicians and their Venezuelan conductor brought a programme of Habibi, Berlioz and Beethoven – with Javier Perianes the soloist in his first piano concerto – to London

The Guardian - UK

Takács Quartet review – a superlative performance in which the music never sits still

Britten’s second string quartet was framed by forward-looking works by Haydn and Beethoven with each work sounding fresh in an entrancing concert

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More Rock and Roll, From My "Commonplace Book"

Number 8 in a series of sense and nonsense from my files

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Adès review – Adámek’s concerto pits Isabelle Faust’s violin against a bullying orchestra

Follow Me by Ondřej Adámek is a vivid work that upends traditional relationships, while exhilarating and faultless Beethoven symphonies bookend the concert

What Hi-Fi?

The deal with Debussy: why the maestro's works are so perfect for testing hi-fi

We use a lot of classical music for testing, with Claude Debussy standing out as one of our most listened-to composers.

The Guardian - UK

‘His music has joy and energy. It is luminous’: Steven Isserlis on the genius of Gabriel Fauré

Fauré is widely known for his beautiful Requiem and Pavane. But, says the British cellist, there is far more of his often radical work to enjoy and explore

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Fidelio; Messiaen: Vingt Regards; Spinifex Gum – review

Standout performances counter all the horsing around in Tobias Kratzer’s take on Beethoven; Reinis Zariņš dazzles in one of the great piano epics; and the young Australians with plenty to sing about

The Guardian - UK

Fidelio review – Kratzer’s iconoclastic take turns Beethoven into something it’s not

Directorial tweaks weaken the opera’s fervour and idealism, but Jennifer Davis’s Leonore and Chrstina Gansch’s Marzelline both impressed and in the pit, Alexander Soddy keeps things brisk

MusicRadar

“If Beethoven himself were here today, and he was sitting at the piano, what would the approach be?”: Jon Batiste takes Für Elise to unexpected places as he previews his Beethoven Blues album

A different kind of Ludvig van jam

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