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Classical music

April 2025

  • Laser-intense timbre … Yuki Deai plays the shō conducted by Kazuki Yamada at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham.

    BCMG/Yamada review – flutter tonguing, fragrant dissonances and frogs

  • Hypnotic force … BPO conducted by Joanna MacGregor with soloists Joseph Havlat and Cynthia Millar

    Brighton Philharmonic/MacGregor review – compelling Messiaen played with panache

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    Music can lift mood, foster community and even rewire brains – but does it need to have a purpose?

  • A conductor wields a baton in front of an orchestra looking at sheet music

    BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo review – Carwithen comes in from the cold

  • Observer book of the week
    Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman review – the radical lord of light entertainment

  • On my radar
    On my radar: Kit de Waal’s cultural highlights

  • The week in classical: Peter Grimes; Parsifal; Yunchan Lim – review

  • Missa Solemnis review – glorious and memorable Beethoven

  • ‘My players are Olympians’: meet Bradford legends the Black Dyke Brass Band

  • Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos 2 and 3 album review – high-class chamber music with a star team player

  • Ravel: Complete Songs album review – Martineau’s survey is full of treats

  • Carmen review – Akhmetshina and Elder make this an outstanding evening

  • From Classic Penguins to One Man Musical: the best live shows to see at Melbourne international comedy festival and beyond

  • Yunchan Lim review – young pianist’s Bach dazzles and intrigues

  • Brief letters
    AI piano analogy does not play well for me

  • Aurora Orchestra/Collon review – reduced Mahler still packs a punch

  • Peter Grimes review – WNO’s production of Britten’s masterwork seethes like a wild and cruel sea

  • The week in classical: BBCSO Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez; RLPO/ Hindoyan: Mahler Symphony No 3; Joyce DiDonato and Maxim Emelyanychev – review

  • Pierre Boulez was exacting – but never in a bad tempo

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

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