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The maestros who will put Paris on top

21.01.09
For the first time in 100 years, the French capital is attracting the best conductors and most exciting talents and threatens to rival London’s music scene...... more

Shock and awe in this Donne raid

17.10.08
This concert built around poems of John Donne was electrifying, stirring and in every sense a revelation.... more

Musical adventure at Aldeburgh Festival

24.06.08
The audienceat the Aldeburgh Festival sat enthralled, as if collectively stunned by a most Gallic coup de foudre.... more

Mozart and politics

15.05.08
The storyline of Mozart's Idomeneo may seem implausible to today's world but this hasn't stemmed the tide of enthusiasm for it.... more

A high-calibre affair

10.12.07
This performance of Britten's Billy Budd at the Barbican has a top-drawer line-up combined with a masterful rendition of the score.... more

Anglo-Germans' Handel with flair

24.08.07
Two of the finest period instrument ensembles came together as the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra performed at the Proms.... more

Bewitching decadence

25.05.07
English National Opera's first ever staging of Britten's last opera, Death in Venice, is a typically thoughtful treatment by Deborah Warner and exquisitely designed by Tom Pye.... more

New light on old songs

04.04.07
If the mark of a creative genius is to confront the familiar and show it in a new light, then Thomas Adès is such a genius.... more

Adès proves he's the real thing

13.03.07
Thomas Adès's first full-scale opera, The Tempest, returns to Covent Garden as an assured, fully matured work with many of the reservations evident on first hearing banished.... more

Schubert with style

17.01.07
Ian Bostridge, a late replacement for the indisposed Philip Langridge, offered an intense account of some Schubert songs, says Barry Millington. ... more

Mini-dramas in their extremes

18.09.06
In recital, Ian Bostridge expects his pianists to express themselves as forcefully as he does. Antonio Pappano, music director of the Royal Opera House, knows a thing or two about singers and vocal drama.... more

New Yorkers miss out

18.08.06
Proms replacements for the security-stranded Orchestra of St Lukes - the City of London Sinfonia - perform admirably at short notice.... more

Three of a kind

17.08.06
Barry Millington picks out three must see classical performances to go and see in London.... more

Christina doubles up

14.08.06
Christina Aguilera goes Back to Basics with her latest album, Lambchop's Kurt Wagner is on verbose, melancholy form and jazz diva Etta Jones' has been remastered by Rudy Van Gelder... more

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