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BBCSO/Gaffigan review – all-American evening of sleek grooves and edge-of-seat Barber

silverguide.site – The UK premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s Concerto for Orchestra was playful and punchy, before elegant Gershwin and noirish Barber…
BBCSO/Gaffigan review – all-American evening of sleek grooves and edge-of-seat Barber
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Add to playlist: the heartbreak post-mortems of Cape Town’s Rowlene and the week’s best new tracks

silverguide.site – The South African singer has been a memorable guest artist, but the unhurried, emotional tracks on new album Some Strings Attached show she’s ready for the spotlight…
Add to playlist: the heartbreak post-mortems of Cape Town’s Rowlene and the week’s best new tracks
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Hillborg: Lost Landscapes album review – sonic imagination and luminous colours

silverguide.site – Unconventional instrumentation adds to the filmic feeling of these three works by the Swedish composer, played on this recording by a powerhouse orchestra on top form…
Hillborg: Lost Landscapes album review – sonic imagination and luminous colours
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Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto: Fifteen review – Pulitzer winner stirs gorgeous improv patterns

silverguide.site – By turns gleeful, sensitive, urgent and ruminative, this is a brilliant set that plays to the trio’s formidable strengths…
Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto: Fifteen review – Pulitzer winner stirs gorgeous improv patterns
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Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal: Doomed! review – caustic, crushing breakup album flirts with catharsis

silverguide.site – The rapper-producer duo muster a breakup record with glistening beats and lovelorn lyrics that mull over grievances without resolve…
Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal: Doomed! review – caustic, crushing breakup album flirts with catharsis
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Bruckner Symphony No 3 album review – Anima Eterna’s period instruments bring visceral drama

silverguide.site – There’s bone-crushing intensity in this striking recording of the original version of the Bruckner’s third. Pablo Heras-Casado teases out vital, almost operatic detail…
Bruckner Symphony No 3 album review – Anima Eterna’s period instruments bring visceral drama
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Billion-streamers, Beyoncé and heart-bruising beauty: Frank Ocean’s 20 best songs – ranked!

silverguide.site – It’s a decade since the Los Angeles musician released the seminal album Blonde. To lessen the pain of his hiatus, we count down the best of an artist who redefined R&B…
Billion-streamers, Beyoncé and heart-bruising beauty: Frank Ocean’s 20 best songs – ranked!
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Chelsea Wolfe: The Dark review – existential reflection goes from whisper to gothic scream

silverguide.site – The genre-blending Californian artist casts off past toxic influences with a powerful set of tender, brooding and emotionally charged songs that wouldn’t feel out of place as festival anthems…
Chelsea Wolfe: The Dark review – existential reflection goes from whisper to gothic scream
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We’re going to party like it’s 1629… the masques, the music and the mayhem of Banqueting House

silverguide.site – What music soundtracked 17th-century England? Ahead of a DJ set in Banqueting House, Georgia Mann looks at the wild, the experimental, the melancholic – and why a theorbo caused a security alert…
We’re going to party like it’s 1629… the masques, the music and the mayhem of Banqueting House
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Post your questions for Amy Lee of Evanescence

silverguide.site – The metal icon is here to answer your questions about the band’s 90s origins, MTV fame and being trailblazer in a male dominated genre…
Post your questions for Amy Lee of Evanescence
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From sensation to spectacular, to silence: the strange history of Coleridge-Taylor’s Song of Hiawatha

silverguide.site – Chances to hear Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s choral masterpiece in concert are rare. Ahead of its belated Edinburgh festival premiere with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, we look at the epic work - and its epic baggage…
From sensation to spectacular, to silence: the strange history of Coleridge-Taylor’s Song of Hiawatha
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LA Phil/Dudamel; Fantasia Orchestra / Fetherstonhaugh/Glennie reviews – high-contrast programming

silverguide.site – The first of two evening proms began with the Los Angeles Phil’s polished but polite Beethoven and intoxicating Adès. Later, the Fantasia orchestra’s bitty playlist-type programme only occasionally sparked into life.…
LA Phil/Dudamel; Fantasia Orchestra / Fetherstonhaugh/Glennie reviews – high-contrast programming
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Rod Stewart cancels farewell tour dates after undergoing successful heart procedure

silverguide.site – The singer said that he was ‘already feeling better’ but forthcoming dates on his mammoth farwell tour will not now go ahead…
Rod Stewart cancels farewell tour dates after undergoing successful heart procedure
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Juilliard Orch/Royal Academy Symphony Orch / Salonen/Frang review – student players let rip, eventually

silverguide.site – Esa-Pekka Salonen led an orchestra of players from London’s Royal Academy of Music and New York’s Juilliard School through 20th-century classics with Vilde Frang the electrifying soloist in Berg’s Violin Concerto…
Juilliard Orch/Royal Academy Symphony Orch / Salonen/Frang review – student players let rip, eventually
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The Galloping Cure review – powerful new opera tackles the opioid crisis with bite and black comedy

silverguide.site – Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s new music theatre work boasts a richly textured score with a direct but sophisticated musical language. Daniela Mack is ideal as the conflicted doctor as its heart…
The Galloping Cure review – powerful new opera tackles the opioid crisis with bite and black comedy
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Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles / György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments – Bristol Proms reach for the heavenly

silverguide.site – Sunday afternoon’s two concerts, closing the Proms’ Bristol weekend, brought the superlative Tenebrae, and Sakari Oramo swapping baton for bow to duet with his wife…
Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles / György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments – Bristol Proms reach for the heavenly
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Overmono review – irresistible dance duo swap club intimacy for well-earned spectacle

silverguide.site – Playing their biggest headlining gig to date, the Russell brothers are in a bouncy mood, though their grandstanding rave melodies lose some punch in an outdoor environment…
Overmono review – irresistible dance duo swap club intimacy for well-earned spectacle
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‘This is asking a lot of the buttocks’: my 23-hour Wagner marathon on a rock hard seat in a heatwave

silverguide.site – How does it feel to be locked into a venue notorious for its unpadded seating to experience a full-throttle Ring cycle and more? Our critic found out at the 150th anniversary of the mighty Bayreuth festival…
‘This is asking a lot of the buttocks’: my 23-hour Wagner marathon on a rock hard seat in a heatwave
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The Drover’s Wife review – operatic version of Leah Purcell’s story is powerfully emotional

silverguide.site – Purcell’s play-turned-book-turned-film is now also an opera, a form that allows for a more expansive story and a deeper sense of First Nations culture…
The Drover’s Wife review – operatic version of Leah Purcell’s story is powerfully emotional
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William Orbit obituary

silverguide.site – Musician and record producer who reignited Madonna’s career with his work on her 1998 album Ray of Light…
William Orbit obituary
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