10 Best Classical Albums of 2025
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Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical music and opera. That, perhaps, is why I love to be surprise ...
Turnage’s Festen at the Royal Opera House swept all before it, but there was plenty of extraordinary new music, exhilarating performances and triumphs of talent, commitment and resourcefulness across ...
Looking back on 2025 is like trying to recount a dream — a mix of dagger-sharp details and foggy stretches that fall apart ...
Julia Wolfe’s UnEarth will be on at the Barbican in January - Barbican As the winter evenings draw in, music becomes a solace as well as a pleasure. So far this year we’ve enjoyed a Proms season for ...
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The best of classical music in 2024
As usual, my retrospective list of the “best” classical and opera offerings of the year has a lot more to do with lasting impressions than definitive rankings. This was a year of big tours and ...
Despite grant withdrawals, local music-presenting groups surged ahead with new seasons, new work and new partnerships.
The best thing about 2023, ’round these parts? It got me excited for 2024, and 2033. The prognosis for the performing arts at large, still limping after the pandemic, is anything but rosy. But then, ...
Since the pandemic began, I've not been going to concerts — as in none since March 2020 — until this year. So far, I've dodged the COVID bullet (yes, an outlier), though I'm still squeamish about ...
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