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Fruit d’une série de trois résidences locales et de la collaboration entre les compagnies À bout de souffle et Avant l’incendie, cette relecture de L'Orfeo de Monteverdi est indéniablement vivante. 

Consacrée à la musique de la compositrice autrichienne, l'édition 2025 du festival a proposé une pléiade de créations d'esthétiques variées, de l'énergie folle de Christophe Bertrand au bruitisme de Margareta Ferek-Petrić.

Construit autour de l’identité artistique des deux protagonistes, le spectacle Magma juxtapose les styles classique et flamenco, sans parvenir à la fusion attendue.

L'Ensemble intercontemporain propose une balade dans un « jardin musical », une rencontre entre œuvres, entre électronique et instrumental, mais aussi entre musique et plastique, lumière, dramaturgie. Une soirée magique d'une immense poésie.

Le Festival d'Automne à Paris présente à la Cité de la Musique un portrait de Claude Vivier, avec le chœur Solistes XXI et l'Ensemble intercontemporain.

An eclectic programme including evocative Sámi joiks from and powerful Shostakovich performed from memory by the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin invites the Marcus Roberts Trio in place of a traditional soloist, and the group brings a freewheeling, improvisatory touch to Gershwin's masterpiece. 

This all-Duke programme punctuates choreography with comedy, which in turn merges with pathos. 

Two stimulating world premieres from Dwight Rhoden and Jenn Freeman, plus outstanding dancing, as always, from the powerful dancers of Complexions Contemporary Ballet at the Joyce Theater. 

In a former ballroom in the up-and-coming Neukölln district, the orchestra’s chamber ensemble presented an eccentric programme of music by oddballs and outcasts.

Klaus Doldingers Passport und die Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie jazzen zwischen Tatort und Elfenbeinturm.

Konzert mit dem Glockenschlag: In nur einer Stunde präsentiert Marburg elf Werke, neue Klänge und ungewöhnliche Interpreten.

Part of a festival exploring technological innovations moving “beyond” the piano, Aufgang and Brandt Brauer Frick presented an evening of music in Paris that didn’t reinvent the instrument in quite the expected way.

The centrepiece of Nonclassical’s “Pioneers of Percussion” festival was a rousing marathon of a concert at Scala, a large (mostly) rock venue near King’s Cross. It was a rich, varied, high-energy, happily chaotic affair that lasted into the wee hours of the morning.

John Zorn doesn’t look 60. He looks 35, or whatever age it is where you’re still just about young enough to get away with wearing baggy camouflage pants. “And that’s how it’s done!” he yells through his mic at the end of the first half, over huge applause and cheering from this passionate Barbican audience.

Seven Storey Mountain, the title of Trappist monk Thomas Merton’s autobiography, is a reference to the mountain of purgatory in Dante’s Inferno. It is also, fittingly, the title of trumpeter Nate Wooley’s song cycle – meant to represent “a certain abandon found in religious practice within the confines of a composed work for instrumentalists”.

The Danilo Pérez Trio tribute to Dizzy Gillespie was many things, including an invitation to relax. It was also a showcase and world première for Camino de Cruces, Pérez’s contribution to the 500th anniversary celebration of the founding of Panama.

The ever-eccentric Nigel Kennedy entered on stage in trainers, combat trousers, a pirate shirt with a shiny black jacket, and his staple punk hairstyle. Dressed as a rebel, his cheeky-chap persona grabbed the attention of the audience at Colston Hall for a night of Bach and Fats Waller in one.The set was different to that of most normal concerts.

International Contemporary Ensemble’s debut London concert was a small-scale affair, tucked away in Hall 2 of Kings Place on a Sunday afternoon. But this talented group still gave us a great taste of why they’re such big news in the United States, with a pleasantly varied programme of new and recent music curated for them by Londoner and long-time collaborator Dai Fujikura.

Pleasantly enough, Britten Sinfonia went down a thoroughly unconventional route in celebrating their 20th birthday at the Barbican on Saturday, with a brilliantly varied range of new pieces mixing with chamber orchestra classics.

Bluish lights mottled the stage at Merkin Concert Hall. The space was set for what appeared to be an orchestral concert, but for the table, drum set, and microphones. At the 7:30 start time the vintage-clad crowd was still in the lobby sipping wine, or ambling into the hall as if going to a rock concert.

Now in its fourth year, Fringe by the Sea is an enthusiastically supported satellite of the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe. Located 25 scenic miles from the capital, in the beautiful seaside town of North Berwick, it offers a wide variety of cultural events with music at its core. One of four simultaneous events on the evening of Aug 11, Camerata Ritmata drew a large crowd to St.