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Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński: ‘Breakdancing feeds into my performances – music dictates the way you move on stage’

The singer on his high voice, his forthcoming Proms debut and his other lives – as a breakdancer, skateboard champion and Vogue model

The Guardian - UK

I’ll take your brain to another dimension … my classical DJ set at Glastonbury

Georgia Mann is usually to be found at BBC Broadcasting House presenting Radio 3’s Essential Classics. Why was she in a field in Glastonbury this weekend, and did she get the festival crowd moving?

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Riot Symphony; L’Olimpiade; LSO/Tilson Thomas review – humanity and hope

Pussy Riot and a young anti-Nazi protester inspire an exhilarating world premiere; an offstage stand-in steals the show in Irish National Opera’s latest elegant Vivaldi; and the LSO rallies around a much-loved conductor

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“I’m 16 and they were my heroes… They started to laugh because I was also playing the echo parts. I didn’t know they were a special effect”: Obsessive attention to detail was always Eddie Jobson’s superpower

From a backstage performance for Curved Air to being dragged onstage by Frank Zappa and out-complicating King Crimson, the UK violinist has managed to ignore distractions from making music

Louder

Classical home listening: Má vlast with the Czech Phil; Andreas Scholl revisits Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater

Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic mark Smetana’s bicentenary in peerless style, while the countertenor and Accademia Bizantina contemplate the Virgin Mary

The Guardian - UK

I wrote the book on Tomb Raider and spoke to the devs about Lara Croft’s return in the Remastered Trilogy

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered proves how iconic the original trilogy remains to this day — and I spoke to the developers to get their unique insight into Lara Craft's return.

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BBC Proms: Britten Sinfonia/Thomas Gould review - the ensemble takes on Max Richter with unfussy panache

The Tomas Gould-directed Proms was both daring and energetic

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Prom 4 at the Royal Albert Hall review: revitalised Vivaldi with a provocative take on Four Seasons

This took well-worn music and made it fresh – no mean achievement

Evening Standard

Scottish Ensemble review – Anna Meredith’s electronic Vivaldi thunders and chills

Jonathan Morton was a vibrant soloist in Meredith’s playful reimagining of The Four Seasons, in a showcase of nature-inspired gems by Jessie Montgomery, Fredrik Sjölin and more

The Guardian - UK

Hooked on classics? But if you want to learn to play, you’d better be posh

My state school taught me the value of Bach and Vivaldi. Today’s pupils aren’t so lucky

The Guardian - UK

BBC Proms 2023: the 20 concerts to book now, from Anna Lapwood to a Northern Soul night

From Portuguese Fado to the Rite of Spring played from memory, a Horrible Histories opera and a tribute to a Bollywood legend, there’s something for everyone

Evening Standard

Review: An outstanding French drama explores the joy and pain of 'Other People's Children'

The superb French drama "Other People's Children" opens on the Eiffel Tower at night — a timeless romantic image that floods you with warmth and maybe induces a chuckle. It's a cliche, oui, but a wittily, knowingly deployed one. The tower's famous beacon shimmers across the famous city that's home…

Los Angeles Times

You can listen to ABBA and Queen by candlelight at a stunning Welsh cathedral

A unique series of concerts will also pay homage to Hans Zimmer, Coldplay and Taylor Swift

Wales Online

McLaren Pairs V8 Sound With Vivaldi On Violin For Superb Holiday Symphony

Violinist Erica Carpenedo plays The Four Seasons: Winter while a McLaren GT carves corners in California.

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Classical home listening: Tine Thing Helseth’s Seraph; Lost in Venice with Infermi d’Amore

From Satie to MacMillan, the trumpeter embraces past and present with panache, while Infermi d’Amore transport us to Vivaldi’s Venice

The Guardian - UK

‘Like seeing a sculpture from a different angle’: Max Richter on rewriting The Four Seasons – for the second time

His 2012 reimagining of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons was huge hit. So why, a decade later, is Max Richter recording it once again – this time with period instruments and a vintage synth?

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Alcina; Bajazet; Pavel Kolesnikov – review

In a tale of two 1735 works, Opera North miss a trick on Handel’s fantasy island while Irish National Opera explore every sizzling note of Vivaldi

The Guardian - UK

Bajazet review – Vivaldi finally gets his London premiere

Vivaldi wrote 90 operas but this is the first of his works to be staged at the ROH; Adele Thomas’s engaging production makes a strong case for this to be first of many

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