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  • Tenor Laurence Kilsby, a rising singing star, pictured wearing a white shirt smiling at the camera.

    Album of the week
    Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings – Wilson explores British music’s highway and byways

    The Sinfonia and John Wilson bring warmth and sparkle to works by Ireland, Walton and Goosens; rising star tenor Laurence Kilsby and Christopher Parkes are expressive soloists in the Britten Serenade
  • Two men playing vibraphones while facing each other.

    Review
    Colin Currie Group – Steve Reich’s music is still bedazzling

  • Paris, France. 17th Oct, 2026. Demonstrators gather around musicians performing during protests over the rising cost of living in Paris, France on October 17, 2026. The demonstrations were part of nationwide protests over rising living costs and public services, which brought together students, trade unionists and other groups. Clashes broke out in parts of Paris, where police used tear gas and water cannons. (Photo by Nael Chahine/Middle East Images/Sipa USA) Credit: Sipa US/Alamy Live News3FWEKF4 Paris, France. 17th Oct, 2026. Demonstrators gather around musicians performing during protests over the rising cost of living in Paris, France on October 17, 2026. The demonstrations were part of nationwide protests over rising living costs and public services, which brought together students, trade unionists and other groups. Clashes broke out in parts of Paris, where police used tear gas and water cannons. (Photo by Nael Chahine/Middle East Images/Sipa USA) Credit: Sipa US/Alamy Live News

    Tom Service on music
    Their orchestra is not a sacred object but a tool for struggle – Paris’s musicians join the frontline

    Tom Service
  • Stephen Kovacevich Performs During Rehearsal At Queen Elizabeth Hall In LondonPianist Stephen Kovacevich performs at rehearsal on stage before his evening solo piano recital, featuring works by composers Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms, for the International Piano Series at Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre on March 19, 2013 in London, England.

    Stephen Kovacevich - a pianist who risked oblivion to know what it’s like out on the edge

  • Tamara Stefanovich, Mark Simpson and Edward Gardner with the LPO at the Royal Festival Hall, London.

    Review
    LPO/Gardner – Mark Simpson’s new piano concerto leaves its audience panting

  • Engaging… Fleur Barron and Hannah Kendall at the Barbican on 29 October.

    LSO/Pappano review – Kendall’s engaging new work has a tea kettle, tremolo and slam-dunks of timpani

  • In Carmen, a man embraces a seated woman from behind on a red velvet sofa, bathed in red light

    Carmen review – Costa-Jackson’s smouldering heroine blazes brightly

  • Théotime Langlois de Swarte on violin and Thomas Dunford on lute perform together

    The Mad Lover review – eccentric charm and baroque brilliance as duo move from Eccles to Indiana Jones

  • A children's choir sings energetically on stage, conducted beside a harpist, at Hoddinott Hall

    Aberfan: From Darkness to Light review – Mealor’s requiem offers hope amid the tears

  • Conductor Vasily Petrenko performs, holding a baton with the other hand in the air

    Strauss: An Alpine Symphony album review – monumental work’s mystic vision guides Petrenko

  • Igor Levit performs Vexations as part of the Southbank Centre's new arts festival Multitudes at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. This durational event is directed by conceptual artist Marina Abramović. London. Photograph by David Levene 24/4/25

    Igor Levit: Resistance album review – essential listening in a time of bullies and despots

  • Conductor Ed Gardner smiles near a wooden railing in an ornate hallLondon; Philharmonic; Orchestra; behind; the; scenes; BTS; LPO; Music; Woodwind; Strings; Brass; Timpany; Percussion; String; Harp; Violin; Cymbals; Drums; Trumpet

    Bartók: Miraculous Mandarin Suite, The Wooden Prince album review – vivid colours and astute pacing

  • A black and white photograph shows Patricia Kopatchinskaja playing the violin and Fazıl Say the piano

    PatKop & Say album review – playfulness and beguiling delicacy in mix of new and old

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  • Portrait of Jakub Hrusa at a piano

    Interview
    ‘I never choose the cautious option’: Royal Opera’s Jakub Hrůša on collaboration, control and conducting Wagner

  • Composer Steve Reich, wearing glasses and a black cap, stands before bookshelves

    Interview
    ‘Good music is good music, and most music is not!’ As he hits 90, master minimalist Steve Reich looks back

  • Bruno Schrecker playing the cello

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  • Wynton Marsalis in a navy suit holds a trumpet while looking at the camera against a grey background

    Interview
    ‘Trumpeters? We think we’re the kings of the orchestra’: Wynton Marsalis prepares to blow the Edinburgh festival away

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