The Music Section of the UK Critics' Circle
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Mash meets Ring! Radio doyenne Penny Smith, cultural augur Lola Salem, historian Paul Lay and Robert Thicknesse sift through the Royal Opera's terrific Siegfried in our first excursion into review-by-pod thecritic.co.uk/ring-engagem…
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RPO/Edusei/Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha review – the makings of a classic Strauss | Classical music | The Guardian theguardian.com/music/2026/f…
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Sandrine Piau and David Kadouch at Wigmore Hall: shorturl.at/nF2rU
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LSO Futures: Shin's blazing new piano concerto, two talented youngsters and Boulez's work of genius, Rituel: In Memoriam Bruno Maderna: shorturl.at/bT1im
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An exceptionally involving Onegin from @wildarts, hosted by @operahollandpk this evening. A production that felt entirely in the spirit of the piece and flowed beautifully. The sense of ensemble was palpable. Another independent company showing how it can be done.
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#Tchaikovsky Onegin at Thaxted Festival: shorturl.at/1EQsS
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"By turns beautiful and frustrating: review @Operanow of Colin Matthews and William Boyd's debut opera A Visit To Friends @BrittenPears gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/r…
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Scene after scene registers as a genuine coup de theatre: it has to be 5 stars from me in @TheStage for Hansel’s Saul @glyndebourne
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Opening night at @grangeparkopera – Simon Keenlyside singing Simon Boccanegra. But here’s the 2026 season:
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Interviewed the delightful Masaaki Suzuki for @The_Tablet ahead of his debut with the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra later this month:
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'Nordic music has lost a patriarchal figure and the wider contemporary music world an artist of colossal imagination and influence'. Andrew Mellor pays tribute to Per Nørgård, who has died aged 92 gramophone.co.uk/classical-m…
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♠️ Three, Seven, Ace: Jack Furness plays his cards right in an outstanding Queen of Spades at @garsingtonopera
My review for Opera Now:
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The resurrection of classic films and their scores: Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" at Sheffield, in a post by @Cageian
#Sheffield Chamber Music III: Battleship Potemkin (with a live performance of Meisel's score), and a relaxed concert: shorturl.at/4HgEm
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Per Nørgård 1932-2025.
A giant of Nordic music - of music full stop - has gone.
A unbounded musical imagination and perhaps the greatest symphonist of our time. But it was the sheer beauty of his music that held the breath and touched the heart. #pernørgård
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Avner Dorman's Wahnfried: brave, unflinching, if a difficult opera to love. My review from Longborough:
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The soprano Seohyun Go has won the @guildhallschool Guildhall School’s Music Gold Medal 2025.
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This rare Telemann gem comes up sparkling from the Jette Parker Young Artists @rbo_org criticscircle.org.uk/teleman…
Colin Clarke (@ClassicalExplo1) reviews Wagner's "Die Walküre" at Covent Garden:shorturl.at/rjBJE
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The more I have become immersed in Mahler’s symphonies over the years the more brightly the mighty Eighth has shone. Edward Gardner’s quite stupendous theatrically immersive ‘staging’ @LPOrchestra @southbankcentre was right up there. Thrilling. Moving. Visionary.