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From my monthly essay in The Critic (new issue out today) … Nothing in opera surpasses that single scenic blow to the seat of emotions. The effect is so visceral that I have seen cellists […]

Meet the sleepytime composer

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Bavarian Radio has a rare interview with the shy and retiring German composer Max Richter, first choice for all classical stations with a ‘relaxing’ stream. Richter, 58, is from the Pied Piper’s town of Hamelin. […]

August? That’s the best of the Proms

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From our critic in residence, Alastair Macaulay: How startling and how refreshing to read in a 2025 BBC Proms programme that Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, in its entirety, received only two Proms performances (in 1902 and […]