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Penarth chamber music festival review – scaled-down Mahler’s Fourth Symphony emerges as if newly minted

silverguide.site – The joy and anarchy of Mahler were brilliantly captured, alongside wild Shostakovich and mellow Brahms…
Penarth chamber music festival review – scaled-down Mahler’s Fourth Symphony emerges as if newly minted
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Brandi Carlile review – country for the marginalised excels on the big stage

silverguide.site – Elton John was a constant silent presence as versatile Carlile veered from crooner ballads to hot-rubber-and-leather vibes…
Brandi Carlile review – country for the marginalised excels on the big stage
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‘I find it sad and difficult to listen to the Smiths’: Ana Matronic’s honest playlist

silverguide.site – The Scissor Sister has a complex relationship with the Smiths and gets parties started with Grace Jones, but who’s her (not so) guilty pleasure?…
‘I find it sad and difficult to listen to the Smiths’: Ana Matronic’s honest playlist
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Kneecap’s Glastonbury performance not ‘appropriate’, says Keir Starmer

silverguide.site – UK prime minister criticises band’s inclusion in festival lineup after Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh allegedly displayed flag supporting Hezbollah…
Kneecap’s Glastonbury performance not ‘appropriate’, says Keir Starmer
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‘If men couldn’t have sex with me, they didn’t know what to do with me’: Alanis Morissette on addiction, midlife liberation and the predatory 90s

silverguide.site – She made her name with rage-fuelled anthems – and sold 75m records in the process. Now, with a highly anticipated Glastonbury slot, the California-dwelling earth mother is ready to let rip again ……
‘If men couldn’t have sex with me, they didn’t know what to do with me’: Alanis Morissette on addiction, midlife liberation and the predatory 90s
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Dua Lipa review – dance-pop icon keeps the energy hotter than hell

silverguide.site – Amid exercise videos, confetti cannons and guest star Jamiroquai, Lipa maintains an old-school superstar steeliness as she works up a sweat in the summer heat…
Dua Lipa review – dance-pop icon keeps the energy hotter than hell
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Aqua lungs: how Rod Stewart’s underwater swimming may help his singing

silverguide.site – Singer trains underwater like Frank Sinatra once did and scientists say it may be useful in maintaining vocal prowess…
Aqua lungs: how Rod Stewart’s underwater swimming may help his singing
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Brian Wilson was not the last stop on music’s great adventure | Letters

silverguide.site – Letters: Anoushka Lucas and Tarik O’Regan respond to an article wondering whether there are any musical geniuses left after the death of the Beach Boys co-founder…
Brian Wilson was not the last stop on music’s great adventure | Letters
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‘I’ve never been so obsessed with a band’: readers’ best albums of 2025 so far

silverguide.site – Bad Bunny blasting bigotry against Puerto Ricans, Davido’s 5ive’s uplifting vibes and a blast from trip-hop’s past. Here’s what has caught your ear this year…
‘I’ve never been so obsessed with a band’: readers’ best albums of 2025 so far
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A man of sense and wide sensibilities, Alfred Brendel was simply the pianist of pianists

silverguide.site – His technique was of the highest order, his performances unmatched – but it was always at the service of the music, not of his own reputation…
A man of sense and wide sensibilities, Alfred Brendel was simply the pianist of pianists
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The Merry Widow review – come for the big tunes, stay for the birthday cement mixer

silverguide.site – John Savournin has huge fun transplanting Lehár’s fictional Balkan Neverland to mafioso Manhattan in a hyperactive production…
The Merry Widow review – come for the big tunes, stay for the birthday cement mixer
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Add to playlist: James K’s downtempo dream pop and the week’s best new tracks

silverguide.site – Right on time for the return of the chill out era, the New York producer traces a hypnotic path on an album that bobs along on sleepy breakbeats and angelic atmospherics…
Add to playlist: James K’s downtempo dream pop and the week’s best new tracks
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Hey aliens, here’s our new album! How do you follow up a 50-year-old record that’s hurtling through space?

silverguide.site – The Golden Record – launched in 1977 on the Voyager space probes – contained everything from Chuck Berry to Chinese dialects and the sound of humpback whales. But what would we put on it today?…
Hey aliens, here’s our new album! How do you follow up a 50-year-old record that’s hurtling through space?
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Duo Ruut: Ilmateade review – soft psych-folk channels hazy days and snowy rides | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month

silverguide.site – The pair play with the traditions of Baltic Finnic runo song to explore the connections between the weather and emotion, giving ancient forms crossover potential…
Duo Ruut: Ilmateade review – soft psych-folk channels hazy days and snowy rides | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month
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Hotline TNT: Raspberry Moon review – love lights melodies through the fuzz

silverguide.site – Will Anderson opens up on the NYC group’s third album, revealing an expansive articulacy to his take on 90s indie-rock…
Hotline TNT: Raspberry Moon review – love lights melodies through the fuzz
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Arson, sex shops, livestreamed funerals: Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman on the wild stories in her southern gothic rock

silverguide.site – Wednesday’s picaresque yarns are full of arson, sex shops and outcasts. At home in North Carolina, their leader explains why she likes things ‘a little bit scary’ – and what’s next after her split from bandmate MJ Lenderman…
Arson, sex shops, livestreamed funerals: Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman on the wild stories in her southern gothic rock
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Buy here now: Oasis to open series of merch stores before reunion gigs

silverguide.site – Exclusive: first store opens in Spinningfields, Manchester, two weeks before band’s first gig in 16 years in Cardiff…
Buy here now: Oasis to open series of merch stores before reunion gigs
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La Mer: French Piano Trios album review – expansive, beguiling and unexpected

silverguide.site – Works by Saint-Saëns, Mel Bonis and Sally Beamish’s imaginative reinterpretation of Debussy’s La Mer make for a disparate but rounded programme…
La Mer: French Piano Trios album review – expansive, beguiling and unexpected
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David Watkin obituary

silverguide.site – Cellist who co-founded the Eroica Quartet and won awards for his recording of Bach’s six solo Suites…
David Watkin obituary
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Berlioz and Ravel album review – his orchestra is responsive to Mäkelä’s every move

silverguide.site – It may be missing that edge-of-your-seat excitement it had at last summer’s Proms, but Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique is full of colour and impact, and the energy keeps fizzing on Ravel’s La Valse…
Berlioz and Ravel album review – his orchestra is responsive to Mäkelä’s every move
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