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Heard in a less usual male-voice pairing and with a piano reduction of the full orchestral score, there are more gains than losses to be found here

Chart-topping Górecki becomes exquisite spectacle at ENO; Mahler’s Third is worth the wait; plus, the Finnish flourish of Klaus Mäkelä

Tár is set in the contemporary world of Western classical music and centres on Lydia Tár, one of the world's most prolific composer-conductors and first ever female music director of a major German orchestra. While the film has the look and feel of a biopic, Lydia Tár is a fictional…

Director Todd Field has gone through great pains, including on a podcast for the Los Angeles Times, to explain his great effort to get the world of classical music right in “Tár.”

Elizabeth Watts’s buoyant soprano drew us in to this poignant performance of Ryan Wigglesworth’s work Till Dawning, based on the poetry of George Herbert

In his controversial film, Todd Field foregrounds melancholic works by Mahler and Elgar. Are they a requiem for Cate Blanchett’s supremely powerful conductor?

Symphony Hall, BirminghamThe City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra delivered a fierce Thomas Larcher’s piece and some idyllic Mahler as part of its belated centenary bonanza

Tár (2022) follows superstar conductor Lydia Tár, played by Cate Blanchett, as she conducts the Berlin Philharmonic (represented in the film by the Dresden Philharmonic) in a much-anticipated performance of Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.

Yo La Tengo, Billy Nomates, Låpsley and Paramore have hotly anticipated albums due out – while the BBCSO puts on an Everest opera and Simon Rattle waves goodbye to the Barbican