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London Philharmonic Orchestra/ Gardner review – muscular Emperor sets up edge-of-the-seat finale

The LPO season opener saw Yefim Bronfman on keen form in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 5, before the orchestra delivered a white-hot, bittersweet Tchaikovsky Fifth

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The week in classical: LSO/ Rattle; CBSO/ Volkov; Jenůfa – review

Simon Rattle celebrates his big birthday with two striking world premieres; the sea meets surrealism in Satie’s centenary year. Plus, intense Janáček and a rousing Covent Garden welcome

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LSO/Rattle review – old, new, borrowed and Boulez for conductor’s birthday concerts

World premieres by George Benjamin and Mark-Anthony Turnage were centrepieces of two concerts celebrating Rattle’s 70th, but it was symphonies – Brahms and Vaughan Williams – that were the high points

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The week in classical: The Monster in the Maze; Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson; Rigoletto – review

Sheffield takes on the Minotaur in a rousing Jonathan Dove staging; fire meets grace as two superstar pianists share the stage; and ENO’s Verdi updating remains the godfather of them all

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Benjamin/Crimp: Picture a day like this album review – jewel-like precision

Recorded in Aix where the work was premiered, with the composer himself conducting, the beauty of George Benjamin’s instrumental lines shine with this excellent cast

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Lucerne festival 2024 review – from blazing Bruckner to a Georgian wunderkind

Star turns by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Lisa Batiashvili and more delight, but much of this month-long festival’s power lies behind the scenes…

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The week in classical: Picture a day like this; Peter Grimes; Carol Williams: Mad Rush – review

Sparkling musical invention pierces the gloom of George Benjamin’s mysterious new chamber opera; Britten’s masterpiece holds its own at ENO; and one woman, 7,866 pipes and resounding fun

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Picture a day like this review – Benjamin’s modern fairytale of sparse and moving beauty

George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s enigmatic new work tells of a mother mourning the death of her child. If the dramatic pace is a little unvaried, its musical world is luminous and utterly distinctive

The Guardian - UK

‘I threw my pop records in the bin’: George Benjamin on his defining moments – and his latest opera

As Picture a day Like this comes to the London stage, the composer speaks about finding his dream collaborator, entering ‘a different dimension’ with Olivier Messiaen – and the day Disney changed his life

The Guardian - UK

Ensemble Modern/Benjamin/Prohaska review – teetering on the edge of the atonal

Composer George Benjamin reunites with the contemporary music ensemble for an alternately fierce and delicate programme, with soprano Anna Prohaska a hypnotic standout

The Guardian - UK

If we defund opera saying it is for toffs, then only the toffs will go. Where’s the sense in that?

It is painful to see our top companies starved of funds and strangled by politics, while our best artists head abroad, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins

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