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How Tate Britain overhauled 500 years of art history with its first rehang in a decade

The most comprehensive collection of British art in the world is having a reshuffle. Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson tells Eloise Hendy about how the gallery’s ‘interventions’ will expand and diversify the canon

The Independent UK

Bournemouth SO review – I’ve not heard Karabits and his orchestra do anything better

The Ukrainian conductor led his orchestra through a programme of Ukrainian and Russian music, culminating in a near perfect performance of Shostakovich’s Fourth

The Guardian - UK

Aurora Orchestra/Collon review – Shostakovich of rage and precision

There was nowhere to hide in this compelling reading of the Russian composer’s 14th symphony, the centrepiece of a programme that also featured Mahler and Britten

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Cherry Town, Moscow review – Shostakovich’s operetta becomes a zany romp but outstays its welcome

Welsh National Youth Opera attack the subversive satire with verve and enthusiasm, maximising the theatricality and cheerfully taking the Mikhail out of it all

The Guardian - UK

Prom 25: BBCPhil/Storgårds/Eyck review – Aho’s theremin casts a spell

Carolina Eyck was mesmerising in Kalevi Aho’s theremin concerto, while Kaija Saariaho’s Vista and Shostakovich’s 15th symphony were superbly played by the BBC Philharmonic

The Guardian - UK

BBC Proms: Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon at the Royal Albert Hall review: Impressive

The orchestra’s celebrated from-memory performance filled the Albert Hall to near capacity

Evening Standard

PM says UK will ‘continue to intensify’ efforts to assist Ukraine

Boris Johnson insists Russian president Vladimir Putin will ‘never break’ the spirit of the Ukrainian people.

The Independent UK

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The week in classical: Igor Levit; Sean Shibe – review

The star pianist goes to the far side with Shostakovich and Ronald Stevenson, while the Scots guitarist reins it in

The Guardian - 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

The Guardian - UK

Emerson String Quartet review – Shostakovich offers consolation and equilibrium

The first of a trio of concerts focusing on Shostakovich’s string quartets saw the Emersons bring a persuasive intensity to the Russian dissident composer’s music

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Noseda review – uncompromising Shostakovich and exhilarating Beethoven

The bleak beauty of Shostakovich’s 14th symphony was explored to unsettling effect in a superb performance; the Beethoven that followed was focused and full of energy

The Guardian - UK

LPO/Canellakis at the Royal Festival Hall review: An excellent team in the making

The New York-born conductor showcased a genuine rapport with one of Europe’s finest orchestras

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