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Commemorating Shostakovich review – vivid and nervy chamber music with Kissin a sensitive voice | Classical music | The Guardian
Evgeny Kissin, Gidon Kremer, Maxim Rysanov, Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė, and Alexander Roslavets collaborated in a thoughtful and powerful programme of Shostakovich’s chamber music
Festen review – Turnage’s taut new opera grips, appals and moves | Opera | The Guardian
Mark-Anthony Turnage’s varied musical palette, Lee Hall’s unfussy libretto and Richard Jones’s focused staging of the tragedy of a family deeply scarred by abuse drives the drama inexorably in a remarkable production
‘All this attention is old hat’: Oscar-hopeful Orin O’Brien on making music – and history | Film | The Guardian
She caused a sensation in 1966 when she joined the New York Phil and its 103 male musicians. Now the double bassist is the star of The Only Girl in the Orchestra, a documentary nominated for an Academy Award
‘The Köln Concert is the hit he wants to disown’: why Keith Jarrett shunned two new films about his unlikely masterpiece | Jazz | The Guardian
His back hurt and his piano was substandard. But the musician’s improvised 1975 show entered jazz history. Now two films are celebrating that mesmerising night – and the sweary teen promoter who made it happen
Aida review – parades and totalitarianism rather than pyramids and triumphal marches | Opera | The Guardian
<strong>Royal Opera House, London<br></strong>Robert Carsen’s abstract 2022 production of Verdi’s controversial opera has no trace of its Egyptian setting which brings a schism between staging and score
‘It’s really a very dark comedy’: Festen, the explosive opera based on the dinner-party-from-hell film | Opera | The Guardian
The Danish film about racism, child abuse and self-harm caused jaws to drop in the 90s. Can it work as opera? Absolutely, say lyricist Lee Hall and composer Mark-Anthony Turnage
RPO/Giltburg/Petrenko review – intimate Beethoven and exhilarating Stravinsky from an orchestra on top form | Classical music | The Guardian
In the first of the Royal Philharmonic’s Lights in the Dark series, Boris Giltburg’s Emperor Concerto had delicacy and grace, and the Rite of Spring and Berg's Three Pieces for Orchestra were persuasive and lovingly shaped
Jacob Collier/Chris Thile/Britten Sinfonia review – Bach to Beatles and mass harmonies as virtuosic pair delight | Classical music | The Guardian
An enjoyably varied programme took in Piazzolla, Samuel Barber and Queen with Suzie Collier conducting the Britten Sinfonia, but the musical fireworks were all courtesy of her son Jacob and mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons album review – Pioro’s ‘ode to the imagination’ of Vivaldi has interest but also indulgence | Classical music | The Guardian
The violinist’s rethinking of Vivaldi’s best known work includes four new poems by (and read by) Michael Morpurgo but, placed together at the start of the disc, the music and poetry feels disconnected