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BBCNOW/Otaka/Kholodenko review – Rachmaninov fills seats but magic is missing | Classical music | The Guardian
Soloist Vadym Kholodekno brought little subtlety to the ever popular second piano concerto, works by two Polish composers, Lutoslawsi and Grażyna Bacewicz fared better in this BBC National Orchestra of Wales concert
Ensemble Intercontemporain/ Bleuse review – from a clown to a clarinet and Cathy Berberian | Proms 2025 | The Guardian
<strong>Royal Albert Hall, London</strong><br>A late-night Prom devoted to the music of Berio and Boulez (both born 100 years ago) demonstrated the intricacy, zaniness and sheer imagination of the two composers
Eight hours, 250 singers… and as many bananas as it takes: Tavener’s Veil of the Temple | Classical music | The Guardian
Who’d be brave enough to programme John Tavener’s choral epic? We talk to the team behind the staging that’s opening this year’s Edinburgh international festival, and veterans of its 2003 premiere remember the challenges and rewards
Julieth Lozano Rolong – Alma: Ibero-American Songs album review – Colombian soprano’s captivating debut | Classical music | The Guardian
Supported beautifully by pianist João Araújo, and with songs by composers from seven countries, this recording offers a wealth of colour from a hugely promising performer
The Traitors Prom review – iconic show’s greatest hits turn the melodrama up to 11 | Classical music | The Guardian
Claudia Winkleman hosted while the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra expertly negotiated orchestrated covers including Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo alongside a smattering of Saint-Saëns and Puccini
King of Kings: Orchestral Transcriptions of Bach by Andrew Davis album review – the late conductor’s first love | Classical music | The Guardian
Davis’s fastidious and thoroughly musical orchestrations of Bach’s organ works become a touching memorial as Martyn Brabbins steps in to finish the recordings
Roger Norrington: a maverick, an irresistible firebrand and a musical visionary | Classical music | The Guardian
The conductor, whose historically informed evangelism helped transform the classical music world, has died. Tom Service remembers a man who looked to the past to find a fresh and thrilling present.
Left turns: How a terrible war injury led to the birth of one-handed piano music | Classical music | The Guardian
After losing his arm in the first world war, pianist Paul Wittgenstein commissioned extraordinary new works that he could perform with just his left hand. I’m aiming to keep his incredible legacy alive at this year’s Proms
Recital for a World Gone to Sh*t review – full-throttle fury meets beautiful, blistering verse | Classical music | The Guardian
Bridgerton star Adjoa Andoh’s outstanding delivery of poetry from the 2018 anthology was interspersed with excellent, yet slightly overshadowed performances from baritone James Newby and pianist Joseph Middleton
Steve Reich: Jacob’s Ladder; Traveler’s Prayer album review – at nearly 90, he’s as energetic as ever | Classical music | The Guardian
The consistent harmonics of Traveler’s Prayer are an unfamiliar side to the US composer’s output while the exuberant Jacob’s Ladder brings back his familiar propulsive figures
‘I gave Tom Cruise an impromptu organ lesson!’ Anna Lapwood on her classical mashups – and her all-night Prom | Classical music | The Guardian
She is the hottest property in classical music, a dazzling musician who can play Bach one minute and mix up Robbie Williams the next. Will her epic ‘explosion of energy’ Prom blow the Albert Hall roof off?
Cover Her / Scenes from Under Milk Wood reviews – music for an unsettlingly vivid torture scene | Classical music | The Guardian
New works at Spitalfields music festival by Litha Efthymiou and Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade brought a 3rd-century teenage martyr and the chattering rhythms of Dylan Thomas’s poetry vividly to life
Le Nozze di Figaro review – astute period staging of Mozart’s masterpiece is as poignant as it is funny | Opera | The Guardian
<strong>Glyndebourne, Sussex</strong><br>Mariame Clément allows the story of the predatory Count to resonate across the centuries in this exhilaratingly well performed and eye-catching production
Pelléas et Mélisande review – Longborough’s staging is accomplished and atmospheric | Opera | The Guardian
Anthony Negus is attentive to the subtleties of Debussy’s translucent score, and, matched by Jenny Ogilvie’s darkly mysterious production, this makes for one of the most successful shows Longborough festival has ever mounted
Under Milk Wood invites us to laugh at ourselves – I wanted my music to do the same | Classical music | The Guardian
Dylan Thomas’s evocative radio play has been adapted into films, a ballet, even a jazz suite. From its drunkards and nosey-parkers, to its ghosts and dreamers, Ninfea Crutwell-Reade’s new reimagining connects it back to its origins
‘My hospital notes said: estimated female’: jazz musician Gill Hicks on being caught in the 7/7 bombings | Stage | The Guardian
After being pulled from the wreckage, she spent months learning how to speak again. Now, 20 years on, Hicks is performing her beloved jazz standards on stage – and remembering those who saved her life
Aurora Orchestra/Collon/Power review – Italian immersion with introspective Berlioz and extrovert Mendelssohn | Classical music | The Guardian
Pairing Mendelssohn’s sun-filled Italian symphony with Berlioz’s broodingly romantic Harold en Italie – with actor Charlotte Ritchie on hand to bring Berlioz’s own voice to life - the Aurora Orchestra were on irresistible form