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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Berlioz - What They Never Told You

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Berlioz and Ravel album review – his orchestra is responsive to Mäkelä’s every move

It may be missing that edge-of-your-seat excitement it had at last summer’s Proms, but Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique is full of colour and impact, and the energy keeps fizzing on Ravel’s La Valse

The Guardian - UK

Ezra Collective and Olivia Dean to berlioz: how Gen Z fell in love with jazz and its rebellious spirit

There’s a new music sensation sweeping the nation – except it’s been around for more than a century

Evening Standard

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London's unmissable gigs and club nights this week

Maddy Mussen shares her pick of the shows to see and be seen at this weekend

Evening Standard

Joyce DiDonato sings Berlioz review – you could almost feel the asp’s poison seeping into her veins

The mezzo-soprano’s hair-raising performance of The Death of Cleopatra was a tour de force, a suitable curtain-raiser for the LPO’s new season, with Edward Gardner and orchestra on fine form

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Pappano/Wang/Lapwood review – high on feelgood factor

Soloists Yuja Wang and Anna Lapwood brought style and spectacle to Rachmaninov and Saint-Saëns

The Guardian - UK

One to watch: Berlioz

Inspired by visual art, producer Jasper Attlee’s jazz-house project has a huge streaming audience that's about to get bigger

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Berlioz curates your Friday night playlist

Mysterious producer and DJ Berlioz has quickly become one of the country’s biggest jazz artists thanks to his pastel-coloured house music and has even been compared to Matisse in sonic form

Evening Standard

Strasbourg Philharmonic/Letonja review – French orchestra delights Bristolians with elan and elegance

The orchestra, here for a five-date British tour, played with warmth and sensitivity, with Nikolai Lugansky the dazzlingly virtuosic soloist in Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Prom 64: Les Troyens; Prom 65: Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony; Proms 62 & 63: The Rite by Heart– review

With a stand-in conductor and a stellar cast, Berlioz’s monumental opera came into its own at the Proms; the BBC Symphony Orchestra let Bruckner’s colours unfurl; and Aurora’s Stravinsky played from memory proved unforgettable

The Guardian - UK

Prom 64: Les Troyens review – trouble-hit concert-staging rises to the occasion magnificently

Dinis Sousa, replacing John Eliot Gardiner, brought excitement and emotional intensity to Berlioz’s epic opera, aided by a consistently impressive cast

The Guardian - UK

Prom 64: Berlioz’s The Trojans at the Royal Albert Hall review – the glorious grand opera sounded gorgeous

Dinis Sousa stepped in for John Eliot Gardiner and made a magnificent job of it

Evening Standard

Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra turns 10, training over 1,200 for music careers

Carnegie Hall’s initiative to train the next generation turned 10 this year

The Independent UK

The Met Orchestra/Nézet-Séguin review – white-hot music drama

Making their first visit to the UK in two decades, the New York orchestra – with Joyce DiDonato and Angel Blue – wrung every drop of emotion from Shakespearean music by Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Berlioz and Matthew Aucoin

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Les Siècles review – Raw, radical and revelatory as Roth’s period band thrills

François-Xavier Roth led an exhilarating and illuminating programme that moved through 80 years of French music, from Berlioz to Boulanger

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17 star-studded pets to name your new cat or dog after

It can be difficult to find the perfect name for your new furry friend, so we’ve turned to film, TV and books to help you choose a star-studded pet name

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Josephine Veasey obituary

Mezzo-soprano with a commanding presence as Bizet’s Carmen, Berlioz’s Dido and Wagner’s Fricka at Covent Garden

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