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“I found the underground a more realistic place – bodies all over the floor, film projections on various surfaces, and a right old racket coming from the stage… altogether rather dreamlike”: Robert Wyatt on his improvised life

Fuelled by jazz, socialism and an absurdist slant on the world around him, the retired Canterbury icon’s instincts served him well during a remarkable career

Louder

Diana Cumming obituary

Other lives: Artist whose strange, expressive paintings were admired by Frank Auerbach and collected by Benjamin Britten

The Guardian - UK

Songs for Peter Pears album review – wide-ranging and lucid collection

Irish tenor Robin Tritschler presentation of songs written for Benjamin Britten’s professional and personal partner of nearly 40 years is a fine achievement

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‘I’ve always been a glass half full person’: Aldeburgh festival’s outgoing CEO Roger Wright

After 10 years at the helm of Britten Pears Arts, Wright is stepping down. He looks back at his festival highlights, and forwards to classical music’s increasingly uncertain future.

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: 74th Aldeburgh Festival; Werther – review

From thundering Thorvaldsdóttir to late-night Bach, it’s a standout year for Britten’s music festival, while at the ROH Jonas Kaufmann made a subdued Werther

The Guardian - UK

James Bowman obituary

Countertenor with a clean, focused and lyrical approach to both early and new music, including roles in two Britten operas

The Guardian - UK

From Tchaikovsky to Pankhurst, the quiet love stories of history's queer musicians

Classical music doesn't have a particularly radical reputation, but that doesn't mean that queer culture hasn't been thriving for centuries within its ranks.

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Ed Lyon/James Cleverton/Psappha review – touching, lyrical premieres

Conor Mitchell’s Look Both Ways was the centrepiece of an evening of new music at the Cheltenham festival: a song cycle setting the love letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears

The Guardian - UK

Concert hall that hosted Ed Sheeran performance granted listed status

Snape Maltings Concert Hall is close to Sheeran’s Suffolk home and was chosen as the venue for his Radio 1 Big Weekend gig last year.

The Independent UK

The week in classical: Peter Grimes; Emerson Quartet; RPO/Petrenko

An all-star production of Britten’s opera thrilled; Soviet-era melancholy flowed through Shostakovich’s quartets; and the RPO rose to their game-changing new conductor

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