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8 days ago

The Guardian view on Turner and Constable: radical in different ways | Editorial ⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Capturing the changing landscapes of the 18th century, the rivals transformed British art. The climate emergency gives new urgency to their work

JMW Turner appears on £20 notes and gives his name to B…

52 days ago

‘I’m all for instilling more playfulness’: the unusual musical world of Stephen Prina

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The uniquely irreverent artist, whose work includes everyone from Mozart to Sonic Youth, has a career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art

On a recent Friday night in the vast atrium space of the…

72 days ago

WDR SO Cologne Chamber Players: The Romantic Room, Chamber Works by Spohr album review – plenty to discover

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(Pentatone, six CDs)
The early 19th century German composer wrote a prodigious amount of music, little of it known today. This rewarding collection features his larger-scale chamber works

The sleeve n…

89 days ago

‘The cultural landscape is decimated’: Louise Alder on stage fright, arts funding and the Last Night of the Proms

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The great soprano will be the first British singer to top the bill at the Last Night in over a decade. So why does she advise her younger colleagues to leave the country?

It’s the height of the August…

3 months ago

Mozart: Six String Quintets album review – deep understanding of these under-appreciated works

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Spunicunifait (their name taken from a nonsense word used by Mozart) perform these six quintets with flexibility and easy athleticism

Formed by string players from some of Europe’s leading orc…

4 months ago

Nostalgia is eating us alive. Instead of building a new world, we’re regurgitating a past that never existed | Martin Ingle

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

We want to go back to a time when we could drive our big cars and tease our hair – without thinking about the ozone or whatever

There has been much talk about our hunger for a “return to optimism”. O…

Chloe Chua: Mozart Violin Concertos album review – teenage prodigy’s interpretations are balanced and mature

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The Singaporean violinist plays Mozart with a clean focused tone, an elegant turn of phrase and a quiet wit.

As Chloe Chua points out in her notes,…

5 months ago

‘It is impossible to recall him without smiling’: Simon Rattle on Alfred Brendel

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The conductor first heard Brendel as a schoolboy. He was to become his cherished friend, inspirational collaborator and valued mentor for many decades. Simon Rattle remembers the great pianist’s wi…

Majestic, rigorous and sheer fun: the best of Alfred Brendel’s recordings

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

As the musical world mourns the celebrated pianist, we assess his wide recording legacy and pick the 12 best, from Russian rarities to quickfire Beethoven

In the two decades before he retired from con…

6 months ago

‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star | Mark O’Connell

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

He’s spent 24 hours immersed in slime, two days buried alive – and showered vast amounts of cash on lucky participants. But are MrBeast’s videos simply very savvy clickbait – or acts of avant garde g…

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