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LPO/Jurowski review – Mahler’s 10th is full of colour, and the composer’s pain, in Barshai’s completion

Rudolf Barshai’s audacious completion of Mahler’s final unfinished symphony slathers on the colour, and its diverse timbral details came over loud and clear thanks to the LPO’s playing and Vladimir Jurowski’s textural lucidity

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LPO/Gardner/Akhmetshina review – Tippett’s rose lake sounds glorious

Star mezzo Aigul Akhmetshina shone in Ravel’s Shéhérazade, part of a vivid London Philharmonic programme of music evoking fairytales and far horizons

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Circa/LPO/Gardner review – Exhilarating, exquisite and extraordinary as Ravel melds with acrobatics

Multitudes festival opened with a stunningly effective collaboration between the Australian circus company and the London Philharmonic Orchestra

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LPO/Jurowski review – conflict and loss power Russian-Ukrainian concert

Timely take on pieces by Prokofiev, Mussorgsky and Lyatoshynsky masterfully encapsulated the continuing struggle between war and peace

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Biden Rushed Out Billions for Green Energy Projects Before Trump Took Office

The outgoing administration delved out loans for projects that private lenders wouldn't fund.

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LPO/Guggeis review – Wagner and Strauss touches both body and soul

Renée Fleming brought her communicative gifts to Strauss’s Four Last Songs in a programme dominated by Wagner. Making his LPO debut, Thomas Guggeis was an urgent presence

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Hey DOGE: If You Want To Make Yourself Useful, Kill the Federal Energy Loan Program

The federal government has no business being a bank.

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The Federal Government Is Spending Over $15 Billion To Push Electric Vehicles

Despite the wasteful spending, E.V.s remain unpopular with large portions of the country.

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Lucky bustards: rare birds' habitat saved as French judges block mega-basins

A French court has halted plans to build four large water reservoirs in western France, ruling that they would threaten the survival of the little bustard, an endangered bird species.

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LPO/Kremer/Roslavets/Boreyko review – an evening of raw and uncompromising music

The darkness of Shostakovich’s Symphony No 13 and Schoenberg’s A Survivor From Warsaw had a haunting modern resonance

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LPO/Gardner/Ólafsson review – fierce Brahms and a rich Waley-Cohen premiere

Vikingur Ólafsson’s performance of Brahms’s first piano concerto was the evening’s main attraction, but those who left at the interval missed the world premiere of Freya Waley-Cohen’s ambitious and rich Mother Tongue

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Joyce DiDonato sings Berlioz review – you could almost feel the asp’s poison seeping into her veins

The mezzo-soprano’s hair-raising performance of The Death of Cleopatra was a tour de force, a suitable curtain-raiser for the LPO’s new season, with Edward Gardner and orchestra on fine form

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Prom 23: Benjamin Grosvenor/LPO/Gardner review – heroically committed extreme pianism

Grosvenor’s special performance of Busoni’s Piano Concerto made vivid its sheer profusion of musical ideas and ferociously difficult solo part with immense skill

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Götterdämmerung review – Jurowski’s six-year completion of Wagner’s Ring cycle was well worth the wait

Jurowski’s attention to detail across four-and-a-half hours brought the darkness of Wagner’s score thrillingly to life

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Gardner/LPO review – tautly controlled Tippett, and whoops for Seong-Jin Cho’

The starry Korean pianist’s account of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto was joyous and compelling, while Gardner made a persuasive case for Tippett’s divisive second symphony

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Dance Reimagined review – LPO and Wayne McGregor are a dream team, but AI lets them down

Tonight’s Tania León premiere and reconceptualised Szymanowski ballet made a heady combination, with no need for technical trickery

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Philharmonia/LPO review – brilliant new piano concertos by Dessner and Coll

Bryce Dessner’s ebullient concerto, equal parts rock and Reich, was dazzlingly performed by Alice Sara Ott and the Philharmonia, while Francisco Coll’s glinting, flamenco-tinged piece had its world premiere with the LPO and Javier Perianes

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LPO/Heyward review – Mutter makes Hollywood legend’s Violin Concerto sparkle and fizz

Anne-Sophie Mutter gave the UK premiere of John Williams’ second Violin Concerto in a concert of the US composer’s music that placed the violin front and centre

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LPO/Rachlin/Mäkelä review – a powerful performance of Shostakovich, Mahler and Larcher

Violinist Julian Rachlin delivered a knockout concerto, while 27-year-old Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä drove the orchestra hard and fast

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LPO/Gardner review – Brett Dean provides tantalising prelude to cool Mahler

World premiere of this extract from Dean’s ‘planned opera’ was full of vivid colour and ear-catching textures. The Mahler that followed was stylish and unsentimental

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LPO/Adès review – composer’s finest stage work sea-changes into something rich not strange

Thomas Adès’ Tempest symphony proved a shapely and gorgeous précis of his 2004 opera in a concert conducted by the composer himself

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LPO/Gardner review – magical outing for Tippett’s ‘unplayable’ piano concerto

Coleridge-Taylor’s stately, long-lost Solemn Prelude and a crisp, exploratory interpretation of Elgar’s first symphony completed a trio of English compositions

Radio France Internationale

Surge in number of dolphin deaths sparks call for halt to Atlantic fishing

Biologists and animal rights activists have called for a temporary halt to fishing off the French Atlantic coast as hundreds of fatally injured dolphins wash up on the nation's beaches.

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France’s refusal to ban Sunday hunting angers anti-hunt campaigners

Tougher sentences to be imposed for those causing accidents but alcohol ban dismissed as ‘laughable’

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The week in classical: It’s a Wonderful Life; A Child of Our Time; IMS Prussia Cove – review

ENO’s warm-hearted production of Jake Heggie’s operatic take on the classic Frank Capra film is full of poignant ironies

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