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The Latest Breaking News from Clara Schumann

When a child prodigy composer matured into a noblewoman, her legacy got complicated

Delphine von Schauroth (1813–1887) was spectacularly famous in the early 19th century.

The Conversation

First Night of the Proms review – a thrilling adventure ride

A seemingly safe ticket – Handel, Bruckner, Clara Schumann and Beethoven’s Fifth – became in the hands of Elim Chan and the BBCSO a dazzling, joyous launch night

The Guardian - UK

Fanny review – a fun-packed outing for the other Mendelssohn

Calum Finlay’s fast-moving comedy about the composer and her struggles to be recognised is pitch-perfectly performed

The Guardian - UK

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The Guardian view on female composers: a forgotten musical powerhouse

Editorial: For centuries the achievements of women have been ignored in classical composition. That can’t go on

The Guardian - UK

‘The human stories behind the music we love’: Radio 3’s Composer of the Week turns 80

As the BBC programme celebrates a milestone, Donald Macleod – in the presenter’s chair for almost 25 years – reflects on its storytelling power and shares his own tales of Hollywood and handstands

The Guardian - UK

The World’s Wife review – Carol Ann Duffy’s poems come to vivid and vital musical life

Jorinde Keesmaat’s staging of Tom Green’s reworked music-theatre piece is performed with fabulously assured authority by Lucia Lucas and the Ragazze Quartet

The Guardian - UK

Newcastle Music Festival releases 2023 program

15 concerts from August 11 to August 20

Newcastle Herald

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Javier Perianes review – Granados’s Goyescas has rare outing but colours remain dim

Perianes has the agility and stamina to take on Granados’s piece but his realisation of the epic piano work didn’t have enough colour or character

The Guardian - UK

Best supporting players: Brahms and the Schumanns

Brahms’s friendship with Robert Schumann was brief – but life-changing, while he and Clara supported and inspired each other to the end of their days. Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor on the trio’s musical and personal connections

The Guardian - UK

Classical home listening: Kitty Whately and Joseph Middleton; Beatrice Rana plays Clara Wieck and Robert Schumann

Lesser-known composers take centre stage in the mezzo-pianist duo’s lieder recital, while the Italian star dazzles in a wife-and-husband piano double bill

The Guardian - UK

Top orchestra expands on its recent Romantic repertoire

Recent concerts by the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra have been distinguished by a noticeably high level of enthusiastic engagement by the musicians, a pleasing sign of collective relief that we are now hopefully finally emerging from the Covid-19 era once and for all.

Bangkok Post

The week in classical: Jonas Kaufmann/Diana Damrau/Helmut Deutsch; Royal Academy Opera

The peerless tenor and his companion turn Schumann and Brahms’s romantic duets into tiny operas, while the Royal Academy’s rising stars enchant… and mystify

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