En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Roderick Williams

Des tourments d'Adam aux chemins de la rédemption, l'Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir et le Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen ont donné un programme parfois trop lisse mais toujours d'une grande beauté.

Grand spécialiste du baroque allemand, Masaaki Suzuki est très attentif à son Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment en petite forme. Robert Murray se distingue dans une distribution de qualité.

L'orchestre et le chœur de santa Cecilia ont marqué la fin de la Semaine Sainte d'un grand moment de musique et de spiritualité avec ce bel hommage au Cantor de Leipzig. 

Chanter parce qu’on croit à la liberté et qu’on veut affirmer sa valeur : le lendemain de l’attentat sur un marché de Noël à Berlin, le RIAS Kammerchor et le Freiburger Barockorchester souls la direction de Hans-Christoph Rademann ont dédié un magnifique concert à la mémoire des victimes.

Robert and Clara were not the only two-composer family. So were Alma and Gustav. The Nash Ensemble's latest programme highlights Beethoven and the Romantics.

A memorable evening of superb music-making at the Royal Festival Hall, illuminating two well-known Vaughan Williams scores and shining a light on a seldom performed rarity.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ryan Wigglesworth were heaven-storming in Prom 33, offering celestial visions from Strauss and Holst.

The baritone explores the extremes of youthful emotion in a varied programme of song with pianist Paul Cibis in the Voices Unwrapped season.

Memorable performances of Vaughan Williams' darkest and brightest symphonies at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.

The constituent parts made up a contrasting and stimulating whole: works by Lili Boulanger, Messiaen and Brahms, united by biblical inspiration. Edward Gardner marshalled the collective London Philharmonic forces.

Does opera have room for film? And live video? Multiple screens and advertorials? And allusions to onscreen identity and cyber-immortality?

In a rather mixed and unconventional programme, Roderick Williams and Amarins Wierdsman provide the highlights of a programme of variable success in Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall.

 It is rare for the LSO to take a literal and metaphorical back seat at one of their own concerts, but they supplied every instrumental need in Haydn's joyous oratorio. 

The LPO and London Philharmonic Choir are on outstanding form for a new major choral work to tell the Christmas story.

Michel van der Aa zwingt das Publikum, sich mit der zukünftigen Möglichkeit, ewiges Lebens mittels AGI zu gewinnen, auseinanderzusetzen.

Paul McCreesh fand mit seinem Ensemble eine herzerwärmende Mischung universell wohltuender Festlichkeit.

Its theme of the passing of everything from cherry blossom to opera houses made this a programme for the artistic perils of our time. 

Handel’s Italian cantata Apollo and Daphne is enjoying a Covid wave, perfect as it is for socially-distanced singing.

A deep-dive into the world of 14th-century Persian poet, Hafez, and his influence on song across the centuries. 

Anthony Minghella's classic production of Madam Butterfly makes a welcome return with a sensational role debut by Natalya Romaniw as Cio-Cio-San.

In his 2016 opera Blank Out, Dutch composer Michel van der Aa has managed to create a new kind of operatic ‘reality’ that resonates powerfully with today’s Zeitgeist. Highly recommended.

Sellars und Rattle schaffen einen Raum und Klang, der Bach mit seiner Deutung einer der bekanntesten Erzählungen der Welt lebendig werden lässt.

Challenging and vivid Bach in the first UK showing of Peter Sellars' staging of Bach's great liturgical masterpiece.

A conductorless performance of Handel's masterpiece lights up the Barbican.

The music’s explosions of volume have an open-throated magnificence.

A brooding and melancholy presentation of Bach’s masterpiece from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Mark Padmore. 

A series of ill-advised staging choices leads to a disappointingly drab performance of Monteverdi's Homeric epic.

Hadelich dazzles, but Oundjian's Brahms is bland. 

Suffering, forgiveness, and natural brass in a brand new dramatic oratorio

In Thomas Guthrie’s revival of Sir David McVicar’s sober 2003 production of Mozart’s Singspiel, it was the pantomime elements of the show which registered strongly.

At the opera’s great climaxes Suffolk’s famous wood-and-brick building could barely contain it.

This Peter Grimes was a tale of two talents: the conductor and the star.

A pleasant afternoon's entertainment with grand sweeps and some beautiful singing by Roderick Williams.

An excellent performance of Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s The Last Supper receiving its Scottish première, with Roderick Williams and Susan Bickley heading a luxury cast.

In einer rundum gelungene Aufführung der Teile I-III und VI wurden der RIAS Kammerchor und das Freiburger Barockorchester durch vier feinsinnge Solisten ergänzt.

Opera North's production of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd, directed by Orpha Phelan, is a tense psychological drama which puts the emphasis on issues of democracy and attitudes to dictatorship. 

The legendary Kings College Choir, Cambridge, conducted by their very own Stephen Cleobury, was accompanied by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment on period instruments at the Royal Albert Hall.

Michael Boyd's stylish new production is broadly traditional, apart from beyond-the-grave appearances by Lensky. 

Songs of the Sea, the opening concert of the Leeds Lieder Festival, leaves the audience in a happy and buoyant mood.

Soprano Miah Persson is the riveting protagonist in Michel van der Aa’s genre-crossing new opera, a fascinating revisiting of a tragic event.

Sir Mark Elder conducted the Hallé in a fine Shostakovich 15 following moving performances of Rachmaninov's The Isle of the Dead and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, expertly sung by Roderick Williams.

Not quite a song cycle and not quite a song recital, but the words and music format triumphed in the end at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

Vaughan Williams and Finzi given the Philharmonia treatment with John Wilson at the helm at the Royal Festival Hall.

Annemarie Kremer is a strong-willed, dramatically voiced Butterfly in Laurence Dale’s sensitive production.

Simon Rattle and the Vienna Philharmonic present Elgar's Dream of Gerontius as a well crafted gem of  the English choral tradition, but fall short of a dramatic outpouring of human emotion and religious fervour.

Stimulating sounds from the Academy of Ancient Music in late night Bach at the Proms. 

If Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, then Boris Godunov is about five Russian dolls' worth.

John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Carl Nielsen's First and Fourth (Inextinguishable) Symphonies with Roderick Williams singing Mahler's Wunderhorn songs in Manchester.

Grand Holst and the première of Mark Bowden's A Violence of Gifts, performed with bombastic gusto and colour.