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Igor Stravinsky: Late Works album review – kudos to Reuss for bringing this spellbinding music to life

Noord Nederlands Orkest and Cappella Amsterdam breathe colour and light into work from the composer’s most austere period

The Guardian - UK

The daring women artists of last century were often sidelined as muses. A new book celebrates their brilliance

When I first studied art history in the late 1960s, all artists were men. It seemed, back then, that the act of rendering an image in line and colour, or visualising pure emotion, was confined to the gender that controlled society at the time.

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"Nine Inch Nails made me quit my day job." Zeal & Ardor's Manuel Gagneux picks the 10 songs that changed his life

From discovering black metal through Darkthrone to being inspired by Mike Patton for Stranger Fruit, these are the 10 songs that have shaped Zeal & Ardor's Manuel Gagneux

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Pavel Kolesnikov & Samson Tsoy: 'Music is like a workout for the soul'

Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy are transforming the classical scene with their transcendent piano performances

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"Fear is not a good mindset for musicians. Rock 'n' roll was not born out of fear." From Igor Stravinsky to Public Enemy, here are 10 bold, brilliant albums to inspire and fire revolution

Atari Teenage Riot frontman Alec Empire has always believed in the power of music to effect change. Here are 10 incendiary records he recommends as the soundtrack for revolutionary struggles worldwide

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I’ll take your brain to another dimension … my classical DJ set at Glastonbury

Georgia Mann is usually to be found at BBC Broadcasting House presenting Radio 3’s Essential Classics. Why was she in a field in Glastonbury this weekend, and did she get the festival crowd moving?

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Violinist Alena Baeva: 'We need to escape to our imaginary worlds'

Violinist Alena Baeva is Russian, Luxembourgish Polish and Ukrainian. With her Ukrainian husband, the pianist Vadym Kholodenko, she has just released a new album entitled "Fantasy", which revisits dream-tinted music by Franz Schubert, Igor Stravinsky, Robert Schumann and Olivier Messiaen. The duo are currently touring the record and the award-winning…

France 24

Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite – Falla: El Retablo de Maese Pedro album review – fascinating and intense

An intriguing comparison of sound worlds that includes Falla’s Harpsichord Concerto – one of the lost masterpieces of 1920s modernism

The Guardian - UK

Joana Mallwitz is the first woman to lead a Berlin orchestra. And, no, she hasn’t seen Tár

Comparisons to Cate Blanchett’s fictional conductor abound. But for Mallwitz that is irrelevant – her work is the thing

The Guardian - UK

Seems like fabulous old times as CSO, Riccardo Muti combine for familiar works

The audience knew what to expect Thursday evening, and he delivered the same kind of incisive, involving interpretations that marked so much of his music directorship.

Chicago Sun-Times

The cross-Africa dance company bringing new life to Pina Bausch's Rite of Spring

At its premiere in 1913, Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky’s Rite of Spring shocked audiences and divided critics. The ballet centred around a straightforward yet brutal narrative – a community selects a sacrificial victim, a virgin who will be martyred to their fertility god to secure a good harvest. The…

The Conversation

How Coco Chanel embroidered her contradictory life story

A feminist hero, Nazi collaborator … and resistance agent? A groundbreaking BBC documentary explores her myths and mysteries

The Guardian - UK

“People thought the Beatles were God. That's not correct”: the genius of Frank Zappa, the rock’n’roll icon who had no time for rock’n’roll

Musical genius, rock’n’roll outsider, sexual obsessive, the ‘original shock rocker’ – this is the epic story of how Frank Zappa became Frank Zappa

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Hans Zimmer becomes new co-owner of BBC’s historic Maida Vale studios

Composer behind film scores including ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ pays tribute to studio that ‘inspired you to give your best’

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Bournemouth SO/Karabits review – Ukraine’s musical past takes centre stage

A century after its composition, Feodor Akimenko’s Cello Concerto finally had its premiere, in an outstanding concert that also featured Stravinsky and Mahler

Radio France Internationale

South African choreographer explores sacrifice in spellbinding show

"The Sacrifice" by South African choreographer Dada Masilo is a fusion of contemporary dance and a ritual dance from Botswana, known as Tswana. Inspired by the innovative rhythms of Igor Stravinsky’s "The Rite of Spring" she has brought together twelve dancers and four musicians for the Avignon Festival, 2022.

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Detective debuts, Pilton pop and crabs in disguise – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia plus a few jokes every Thursday – how will you fare?

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Leif Ove Andsnes/Marc-André Hamelin review – duo bring uncompromising brilliance to Stravinsky

The pianists united to play Stravinsky’s overwhelming and savage two-piano version of the Rite of Spring, with Adams, Schumann and Debussy in the first half

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