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Andrew Clements

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January 2026

  • Nadia BoulangerFrench composer, conductor and teacher Nadia Boulanger (1887 - 1979), circa 1975. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    Boulanger: La Ville Morte album review – The celebrated teacher’s early opera is brought back to life

    This early work by Nadia Boulanger - better known as the influential teacher – was never performed and survived only in vocal score. Despite the best efforts of conductor Neal Goren and his hard-working cast it never quite coheres

December 2025

  • Penetrating musical intelligence … Radu Lupu in Bologna in 2016.

    Radu Lupu: The Unreleased Recordings album review – treasures from the vaults are a wonderful surprise

    This six-disc collection to mark the late pianist’s 80th birthday is full of treats and includes rare ventures into Chopin and Copland, along with Lupu’s legendary rendition of Bartók at Leeds in 1969
  • Stéphane Degout (Michael), centre, in Festen by Mark-Anthony Turnage. A Royal Ballet and Opera World Premiere @ ROH. Conducted by Edward Gardner. Directed by Richard Jones. Libretto by Lee Hall. (Opening 11-02-2025) ©Tristram Kenton 02-25 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    2025 in culture
    Shock and awe: our critics pick their best live classical events of 2025

    Turnage’s Festen at the Royal Opera House swept all before it, but there was plenty of extraordinary new music, exhilarating performances and triumphs of talent, commitment and resourcefulness across the UK this year. We pick our best moments
  • Kirill Petrenko, chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and contemporary musicians the Hermes Experiment.

    From shiveringly vivid Mahler to the eclectic Hermes Experiment: our top classical recordings of 2025

    Opera may be conspicuous by its absence, but the brilliance of Berlin Philharmonic’s Schoenberg and the exceptional South Korean Yunchan Lim gave us plenty to sink our teeth into this year

November 2025

  • Helmut Lachenmann Press publicity portrait © Alexis Descharmes

    Lachenmann: The String Quartets review – Quatuor Diotima draw you into his strange and compelling soundworld

  • Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

    Beethoven & Brahms: Violin Concertos album review – as supple and coherent as ever as the ACO celebrates 50

September 2025

  • Trailblazer … Marin Alsop.

    Baltimore SO/Alsop: Clyne, Abstractions album review – Clyne writes accessible and attractive music

  • Plenty to discover … the strings of the WDR SO.

    WDR SO Cologne Chamber Players: The Romantic Room, Chamber Works by Spohr album review – plenty to discover

  • Orchestra on stage

    Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, Verklärte Nacht, Die Jakobsleiter album review – a compelling and impressive collection

  • Mullova and Beatson portrait

    Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Opp 12 no 2 & 96 album review – sheer joie de vivre

  • Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto; Helios; Symphony No 5 album review – suavity and elegance from Gardner’s Bergen Phil

  • Mozart: Six String Quintets album review – deep understanding of these under-appreciated works

August 2025

  • Julian Bliss

    Lindberg & Aho: Clarinet Concertos album review – Julian Bliss’s performances are immaculate

  • Mahan Esfahani.

    Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 album review – Mahan Esfahani’s reading is lucid and illuminating

  • Terry Riley in 1970.

    Terry Riley: The Columbia Recordings album review – early masterworks from a founding father of minimalism

  • Yunchan Lim.

    Tchaikovsky: The Seasons album review – exemplary playing but Yunchan Lim’s take is strangely sombre

  • Petrassi: Concertos for Orchestra Nos 7 & 8 album review – dramatic power from rarely heard Italian master

  • Ravel: Complete Orchestral Works II album review – Mallarmé miniatures shine brightly

  • Helen Grime: Chamber Music review – clarity and colour from one of Britain’s most exciting young composers

  • Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3; Two Scherzos album review – deft execution of the Russian’s early exuberance

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