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Adams: Girls of the Golden West album review – California gold rush opera has a definitive recording | Classical music | The Guardian
The opera met with a mixed response on its 2017 premiere. After two reworkings, and with many of its original cast reprising their roles, this premiere recording is a rich and energetic mix
‘I’m not humble. I expect miracles’: why violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja wants to blow you out of your seat | Classical music | The Guardian
She plays barefoot in jeans with a thrilling unpredictability that makes every show electric. Ahead of a performance that promises to transform the concert stage into a living room, we meet the whirlwind violinist
Lucia di Lammermoor review – a vocally breathtaking, disturbing to witness descent into madness | Opera | The Guardian
Nadine Sierra is sensationally good as Lucia in this revival of Katie Mitchell’s production of Donizetti’s romantic tragedy – a dark, thoughtful and sometimes shocking interpretation for the post-#MeToo era
Music in Time of War: Debussy and Komitas album review – fascinating collection of composer’s final works | Classical music | The Guardian
Claude Debussy’s piano music written in the last few years of his life interspersed with works by ethnomusicologist and composer Komitas Vardapet<br><strong><br></strong>
The week in classical: Carmen; National Youth Chamber Choir/ OAE/Jeannin; LSO/ Roth review – from Habanera to doo-wop | Classical music | The Guardian
Aigul Akhmetshina steals the show in Damiano Michieletto’s uneven new 70s-set Bizet. And in a good week for world premieres, four composers take on Handel while the London Symphony Orchestra channels death metal
Sean Shibe/Dunedin Consort/Butt review – Scottish links bring the rich and strange | Classical music | The Guardian
With music that ranged across four centuries culminating in the premiere of Cassandra Miller’s Chanter for guitar and strings, this concert showcased the skill of Shibe, a truly compelling performer
Deep listening: the haunting sonic world of Cassandra Miller | Classical music | The Guardian
Her intimate compositions take existing melodies that she refracts, rethinks and expands into compelling new pieces. Ahead of the premiere of a new work for guitarist Sean Shibe, Cassandra Millers talks about process, pleasures and sleep chanting
Gardner/LPO review – tautly controlled Tippett, and whoops for Seong-Jin Cho’ | London Philharmonic Orchestra | The Guardian
The starry Korean pianist’s account of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto was joyous and compelling, while Gardner made a persuasive case for Tippett’s divisive second symphony <br>
British music, birthdays and building work: LSO announce first season under Pappano | Classical music | The Guardian
Boulez’s 100th and Rattle’s 70th are among the highlights of the LSO’s new season with chief conductor Antonio Pappano in which British music is a strong thread. The orchestra also announced an £8m redevelopment of LSO St Lukes