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The Royal Festival Hall performance won a standing ovation. Plus: Kinan Azmeh’s Clarinet Concerto
The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s music director has put together an ambitious season of works about home
Top-of-the-class live performances and recordings from four composers who look out to different horizons
The composer conducted his odd work with emotive precision — but the concert hall was problematic
Tan Dun’s ‘Farewell My Concubine’ proved a successful pairing of pianist and Peking opera performer
The staggeringly talented NYO, joined by Chinese pianist Yundi, played as if lives were at stake
Magnificent musical performances and a visually seductive production cannot disguise Tan Dun’s opera’s flaws
This year’s Beijing Music Festival has set out to explore connections in composition across cultures
This is a hypnotic retrospective of the work of an artist who uses traditional crafts to create surrealistic meditations on femininity
From Björk to the Olympics, bells are playing an increasingly strong role in the music of our time
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