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Twilight: Schumann Songs album review – treasures galore from vivid and sensitive Ian Bostridge

Tenor Ian Bostridge brings wonderful clarity and sensitivity to this collection that includes all of Schumann’s greatest song-cycles

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: The Flying Dutchman; LSO/Harding, Trifonov; The Marriage of Figaro – review

Grand Theatre Leeds; Barbican; Coliseum, LondonAs funding cuts start to bite, Opera North’s forces pull together in an asylum-themed take on Wagner

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Harding/Trifonov review – nuanced and individual Schumann, then propulsive Mahler

Making a much-anticipated London appearance, Daniil Trifonov balanced lyricism and vigour in Schumann. Daniel Harding’s well-judged account of Mahler 7 caught the symphony’s sense of impending disintegration

The Guardian - UK

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Schumann: Works for Oboe and Piano album review – beautifully effective reinventions

This eight-work record, some pieces arranged by Daniel, is a dream – despite most of the pieces not being originally written for the performers’ instruments

The Guardian - UK

Violinist Alena Baeva: 'We need to escape to our imaginary worlds'

Violinist Alena Baeva is Russian, Luxembourgish Polish and Ukrainian. With her Ukrainian husband, the pianist Vadym Kholodenko, she has just released a new album entitled "Fantasy", which revisits dream-tinted music by Franz Schubert, Igor Stravinsky, Robert Schumann and Olivier Messiaen. The duo are currently touring the record and the award-winning…

France 24

The week in classical: La bohème; Family Ties: The Schumanns and the Mendelssohns; Treske Quartet – review

Royal Opera House; Queen Elizabeth Hall; Conway Hall, LondonPuccini’s genius shines through as his centenary year gets under way. Elsewhere, a good week for the Mendelssohns, and a Carrot Revolution

The Guardian - UK

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

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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 talent at Newcastle Music Festival

Tamara-Anna Cislowska plays first show on July 29

Newcastle Herald

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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