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  • Le Roi et le Fermier © Louis Forget
  • Most Played Composers
    Concert data 2011
    If you want to discover who is the most played composer, or which work is most often programmed look at our 2011 data and find out.
    Read more about our findings...
  • Pappano and the Hong Kong Phil
    Story Time in Hong Kong
    Playing Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 9 and Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov, Robert Spano and the Hong Kong Philharmonic had the children in the audience raving. They were the best judges of the concert.
    Read Alan Yu's review here...
  • Takacs Quartet, © Ellen Appel
  • Sondra Radvanovsky as Aida, © Dan Rest & Lyric Opera of Chicago
  • A Pastoral Symphony in January
    Mark Elder and the Hallé
    The Pastoral Symphony is perhaps an optimistic choice for January in Manchester, but for a short while all memory of the deluge outside evaporated in the Bridgewater Hall. The Hallé also played works by Messiaen and Ravel.
    Read Rohan Shotton's review here...
  • Joyce Yang at Fort Worth, Texas
    Gargoyles and Gardens in the Rain
    Brilliant young pianist Joyce Yang performed an eclectic program, with a broad mix of styles, including Bach, Debussy, Schubert and Schumann, as well as Gargoyles by Lowell Liebermann.
    Read Evan Mitchell's review here...
  • Opera North’s production of Handel’s Giulio Cesare, with James Laing as Tolomeo, © Tristram Kenton
  • David Lang, © Mark Savage
  • Sparkling new music at the Barbican
    Adès and the LSO
    Thomas Adès' music has a rawness that only comes across heard live. This seems particularly true when he conducts it himself. Gone are the smooth contours of recordings and other conductors, replaced by a focus on infectious rhythm and sometimes brutal colours.
    Read David Allen's review here...
  • John Lill makes magic at the Wathen Hall
    The X Factor at St Paul's
    Simon Cowell is missing a trick: even without the sparkling trappings of show-biz, pianist John Lill is steeped in the ‘X factor’, that indefinable ingredient which separates the very good performers from the magical ones.
    Read Helen Fraser's review here...
  • Turandot © Wilfried Hösl
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    Carousel photo credits: Ballet: Victoria Marr as Fortuna and Tyrone Singleton as the Third Seminarian in Carmina Burana, © Bill Cooper; Concert: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra © Christian Lawson; Opera: Mojka Erdmann, Virpi Räisänen, Julia Faylenbogen, Elin Rombo, Johannes Martin Kränzle in Rihm's Dionysos © Ruth Walz for De Nederlandse Opera.

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