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  • Cellist Paul Watkins

    Recording of the week
    Beethoven: The Sonatas for Piano and Cello – Watkins and Bax have a shared impulse to deliver eloquence

    Cellist Watkins’ career-long immersion in the composer pays dividends in his pairing with Alessio Bax’s unfussy virtuosity
  • The renovated Lincoln Center Performing Arts center, Broadway, New York CityC5YAN0 The renovated Lincoln Center Performing Arts center, Broadway, New York City

    Tom Service on music
    Giving and misgivings: opera managers must choose their poison

    Tom Service
  • Dancers in Unnatural Harmony: Sounds of Lee Alexander McQueen at Royal Festival Hall, London

    Review
    Unnatural Harmony: Sounds of Lee Alexander McQueen – MOR tribute to a fashion maverick

  • O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra performs at Wigmore Hall London on 28 April 2026. Hugo Ticciati violin, director; Christoffer Sundqvist clarinet; Sascha Bota viola; Elsa Bradley percussion; © Darius Weinberg/Wigmore Hall

    O/Modernt review – from Auerbach to Mahler, the fires of love bruise, batter and delight

  • Scottish Ensemble performing in the Sohmen Concert Hall, part of the Schwarzman Centre’s Open House festival, Oxford. 25 April 2026. Photo Oxford Atelier © Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

    Schwarzman Centre opening concerts – a magnificent new monument to secular culture

  • The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's performance of Turangalîla: Infinite Love is part of the Southbank Centre's Multitudes festival.

    Turangalîla: Infinite Love review – RPO and 1927 Studios bring Messiaen to joyous and vibrant life

  • A man in full on heavy metal armour costume singing on stage with orchestra in foreground

    Forged in Sound: Heavy Metal Orchestrated review – hard-rocking mashup rides the lightning

  • Santtu-Matias Rouvali and Ava Bahari Press publicity image

    Sibelius: Violin Concerto, Lemminkäinen Suite album review – Ava Bahari is an enthralling storyteller

  • Jonathan Ware (right) and Timothy Ridout Press publicity portrait

    Timothy Ridout: Alto Appassionato album review – engaging and smartly curated viola and piano programme

  • Sean Shibe Press publicity portrait

    Sean Shibe: Vesper album review – ever-imaginative guitar virtuoso brings mind-expanding flights of fancy

  • Two men posing against a grey backround

    Samuel Hasselhorn: Schubert Hoffnung review – timbral and emotional flexibility is in ample supply

People

  • Paavo Järvi conducting the Deutsche Kammerphilarmonie Bremen in 2021.

    News
    Paavo Järvi to succeed Edward Gardner at helm of London Philharmonic

  • Davóne Tines, opera singer, press image

    Anthems, agency and arias: baritone Davóne Tines on rewriting his role – and the rules

  • In glasses, a white shirt and black jacket, Max Richter stands onstage while behind him, in softer focus, sit the musicians who have performed his score for Hamnet

    Max Richter: the composer who crosses the invisible divide between ‘high’ and ‘low’ music

  • Andrew Clements, photographed in the Guardian Studio for his byline photo. Clements is the Guardian's classical music critic.

    ‘He was, above all, a treasured spirit, who understood how vital music is for the human soul’: tributes to Andrew Clements

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