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  1. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Flora Willson

    Phaedra Ensemble: The Music of Meredith Monk review – fleeting rough edges amid polished beauty (opens the original)

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    Kings Place, LondonWorks by the not-quite-minimalist composer’s included her Realm Variations and quartet Stringsongs in a compelling concert There’s no one quite like Meredith Monk. So often grouped with her lionised contemporaries Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley and La Monte Young, she is 83 to their 90-odd years and sports long plaited hair as reliably as Reich wears a baseball cap. Yet she refuses the label “minimalism” for her music, and composition is just one element of a c

  2. Article · Sep 6, 2026 · Flora Willson

    Munich Philharmonic/Lahav Shani/Martha Argerich review – the great pianist gleams (opens the original)

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    Royal Albert Hall, LondonArgerich stilled a capacity crowd for this prom with her lucid playing of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 2, though the orchestral parts of the programme lacked overall direction The international heavyweights have been coming thick and fast as this year’s BBC Proms hurtles towards its close. The Munich Philharmonic arrived with new chief conductor Lahav Shani hot on the heels of two acclaimed concerts from their Berlin counterparts. Once conducted by Gustav Mahler and

  3. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Flora Willson

    Berlin Philharmonic/ Petrenko/ Hadelich review – flawless musical beauty (opens the original)

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    Royal Albert Hall, London In their second Proms concert, the Berlin Phil brought Beethoven’s Violin Concerto (with Augustin Hadelich the virtuosic and breathtaking soloist), and a detailed and compelling take on Scriabin’s third symphony It’s the clarity that hits you first. The soft thuds of timpani that open Beethoven’s Violin Concerto landed from the back of the stage with the immediacy of taps on the shoulder, quietly urgent. The string sound was simultaneously luminous and transluce

  4. Article · Aug 30, 2026 · Flora Willson

    Oslo Philharmonic/Gražinytė-Tyla/Kopatchinskaja review – weapons-grade charisma and anarchic delight (opens the original)

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    Royal Albert Hall, LondonPatricia Kopatchinskaja hurls herself into Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto, while conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla brings precision and intensity to Prokofiev There are the violinists whose instruments seem barely relevant, their tone appearing to emanate mysteriously from the ether. And there are the violinists whose music-making is audibly rooted in the physical contact between fingers, bow and string. Patricia Kopatchinskaja is among the latter – and Stravinsky’s 1

  5. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Flora Willson

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marquise Gilmore review – bassoon earns its spotlight in Thea Musgrave’s Out of the Darkness (opens the original)

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    Royal Albert Hall, London Amy Harman brought a warm baritonal vocalise to premiere from nonagenarian Thea Musgrave, while Felix Klieser bent his unique horn technique to Mozart Amid this year’s crop of Proms premieres, one stood out a mile – long before any of us had heard a note of it. Out of the Darkness is a new bassoon concerto by the 98-year-old Scottish composer Thea Musgrave, whose music was first heard at the Proms in 1960. Sixty-six years later, Musgrave is one of classical music’

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