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Orchestre symphonique de Montréal/Payare review – colour, pace and silky strings | Classical music | The Guardian
The North American musicians and their Venezuelan conductor brought a programme of Habibi, Berlioz and Beethoven – with Javier Perianes the soloist in his first piano concerto – to London
From the salon and the scarf dance … to silence: the music of Cécile Chaminade | Classical music | The Guardian
Her work was played at Queen Victoria’s funeral, and her compositions celebrated all over the world – but today she is barely known. Stephen Hough on why he is putting Chaminade in his current season
The Elixir of Love review – Donizetti’s romcom staged as second world war sitcom is hugely enjoyable | Opera | The Guardian
Set among land girls and flying aces Harry Fehr’s new staging is a lot of fun, with Thomas Atkins making a fine ENO debut and Rhian Lois a terrific lady of the manor<strong><br></strong>
The week in classical: The Tales of Hoffmann; Philharmonia/ Salonen; Berlin Philharmonic/ Petrenko – review | Classical music | The Guardian
Wild fantasies take hold in Offenbach’s compellingly strange opera; Lawrence Power is more than a match for Magnus Lindberg’s new Viola Concerto; and to the underworld with the Berlin Phil
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat review – superb study of how jazz got caught between the cold war and the CIA | Music documentary | The Guardian
Johan Grimonprez’s fascinating documentary uses the assassination of DRC prime minister Patrice Lumumba to launch a dizzying look into the politics of jazz in the 1950s and 60s
Tchaikovsky: The Seasons album review – exquisite care and ego-free piano playing | Classical music | The Guardian
Bruce Liu’s performance is<strong> </strong>superbly<strong> </strong>polished, but wonderfully free of mannerisms, giving these charming salon pieces the respect and sincerity they deserve
Coups, colonialism and all that jazz: the film that unravels extraordinary cold war truths | Film | The Guardian
Johan Grimonprez’s documentary Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat reveals the curious link between Black Americans’ fight for civil rights and the assassination of Congo’s first democratically elected Black African prime minister
The week in classical: The Monster in the Maze; Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson; Rigoletto – review | Classical music | The Guardian
Sheffield takes on the Minotaur in a rousing Jonathan Dove staging; fire meets grace as two superstar pianists share the stage; and ENO’s Verdi updating remains the godfather of them all
LPO/Gardner/Ólafsson review – fierce Brahms and a rich Waley-Cohen premiere | London Philharmonic Orchestra | The Guardian
Vikingur Ólafsson’s performance of Brahms’s first piano concerto was the evening’s main attraction, but those who left at the interval missed the world premiere of Freya Waley-Cohen’s ambitious and rich Mother Tongue
Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny on crafting hits with Joni Mitchell and David Bowie: ‘I had to keep telling myself it was real’ | Music | The Guardian
The virtuoso jazz guitarist has worked with a string of legends, winning 20 Grammys in the process. He speaks on his beginnings as a jazz trumpeter, and still striving to improve at 70
WEDO/Barenboim review – optimism and despondency as visionary conductor returns to London | Classical music | The Guardian
Making their second visit to the capital this year, a frail Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra played sun-drenched Mendelssohn and stately Brahms with command and beauty
From Elvis to Donna to Stevie: how hit-making legend Quincy Jones created superstars and changed pop history | Quincy Jones | The Guardian
Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davies, Frank Sinatra, Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson, Dionne Warwick … the powerhouse producer made magical music with everyone who was anyone. We pay tribute to the genius of ‘the Dude’