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Making music is a family affair for Alisa Weilerstein and Rafael Payare

Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and conductor Rafael Payare are on a four-concert cross-country run that ends Friday night at Carnegie Hall

The Independent UK

In brief: Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop; Birdgirl; Mozart in Italy – reviews

The tale of a divorcee embraces its sentimentality; a young birdwatcher proves a gifted memoirist; and Mozart’s Italian job sparkles with detail

The Guardian - UK

Classical home listening: Anna Lapwood’s Luna; Renaud Capuçon plays Mozart’s Violin Concertos

From Chopin to Peter Pan, organist Anna Lapwood’s debut album spreads its net wide. And the French violinist expertly captures Mozart’s spontaneity

The Guardian - UK

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Spinal Tap’s Derek Smalls: ‘I’d like to collaborate with Mozart. I know chords he’s never used’

The bass player legend, played by Harry Shearer in the film This Is Spinal Tap, talks facial hair, courgettes and how to break out of a cocoon

The Guardian - UK

10 best European city breaks – and where to stay this winter

Indulge in a culture-packed trip to the Continent at one of these top picks from The Independent’s travel team

The Independent UK

On my radar: Rebecca F Kuang’s cultural highlights

The bestselling author of Yellowface on prepping for Christopher Nolan films, a touring Mozart biopic and the swaggering young stars of Italian rock

The Guardian - UK

Classical home listening: Mozart and CPE Bach from the Dunedin Consort; Cuarteto Quiroga’s Atomos

The baroque specialists thrill in a new edition of Mozart’s C minor Mass, while the Spanish string quartet go to the edge with Beethoven, Bartók and more

The Guardian - UK

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Nina Simone is first black person to be Desert Island Discs’ most selected artist of year

Exclusive: Analysis shows change in guests and tastes help jazz musician keep classical music off top spot

The Guardian - UK

Prom 69: Pygmalion/Pichon review – fascinating and moving take on Mozart’s Requiem

Raphaël Pichon interweaves Mozart’s unfinished masterpiece with the composer’s shorter vocal and choral meditations on mortality eliciting playing and singing of terrific immediacy

The Guardian - UK

Springsteen, Dolly Parton and the Killers: songs presidential candidates think make them look good

From paranoia-tinged GOP favorite Mr Brightside to a Mozart banger, you can learn a lot from music a person pretends to like

The Guardian - US

Herb Alpert on 80 years in music: ‘Mozart, Thelonious Monk ... all of us have the same 12 notes’

The trumpeter and co-founder of A&M Records answers your questions on writing a Bond theme, selling 72m albums and signing Janet Jackson, Karen Carpenter and the ‘appalling’ Sex Pistols

The Guardian - UK

Music may reduce babies’ pain during jabs or heel-prick tests, study suggests

Newborns suffered less pain during heel-prick blood tests if they heard a Mozart lullaby, researchers report

The Guardian - UK

Prom 47 at Royal Albert Hall review: Les Siècles under Francois-Xavier Roth give a life-enhancing performance

The avant-garde composer György Ligeti’s progressive work shines at the Proms

Evening Standard

From Titanic to American Sniper: the biggest lies in fact-based movies

Controversy over debunked elements of Oscar-winning drama The Blind Side won’t be the first time a film based on a true story has taken liberties with the truth

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Mozart Piano Quartets review – rising soloists combine elegance and eloquence

Violinist Francesca Dego, violist Timothy Ridout, cellist Laura van der Heijden and pianist Federico Colli combine character and grace in Mozart’s innovative quartets

The Canberra Times

Big program for Canberra Symphony's new season

The Independent UK

Opera world split as director reinventions dominate Europe while US, Italy more muted

The opera world is split in two: Some European productions reinvent works in ways composers never imagined, and traditional stagings favored in the U.S. are condemned by cognoscenti

The Independent UK

Salzburg Festival nearly sold out while others in classical music struggle to regain audience

While many classical music institutions are struggling to regain audience, the Salzburg Festival in Mozart's hometown is on track to draw people from over 75 nations to opera, concerts and drama

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Guitar World

“It’s like you’re looking at Mozart and you’re like, ‘I’m gonna improvise over this part.’ No. That’s how those songs should be performed”: John 5 shares his approach to learning Mötley Crüe’s back catalog

The band's new guitarist said he wanted to show the songs ultimate respect – but has been given permission to go “berserk” on the fretboard every now and then

The Independent UK

Cecilia Bartoli veers into opera management while still singing at 57

Still singing at age 57, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli has branched into opera management

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Prom 19: SCO/ Emelyanychev; Prom 22: BBC NOW/ Bancroft; Prom 24: BSO/ Karabits – review

A Victorian warhorse springs into life under the baton of Maxim Emelyanychev; Isata Kanneh-Mason makes fiendish Prokofiev look easy; and German horn virtuoso Felix Klieser sets an example to all

The Guardian - UK

Mick Csáky obituary

Documentary-maker whose subjects ranged from Mozart to a cure for heroin addiction administered by Buddhist monks

The Guardian - UK

‘My life is beautiful’: Felix Klieser, who plays the horn with his toes, on making his Proms debut

The German musician refused to let being born without arms stop him from becoming a horn virtuoso. As he prepares for the Royal Albert Hall concerts, he explains why the real disability is imagining that there are limits

The Guardian - UK

‘Mozart didn’t have explosions’: Simon Mayo on how his book Itch became an opera

With an aria to the periodic table and a hero dying of radiation sickness, the broadcaster’s YA novel has been transformed into an exposive operatic thriller

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: RLPO/ Hindoyan; Maxwell Quartet and Alasdair Beatson; The Marriage of Figaro – review

In Latin party mood, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and charismatic chief conductor Domingo Hindoyan bid farewell to their percussionist of 40 years. Plus, a James MacMillan fanfare and Figaro at its finest

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