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The song cycle's exploration of madness, death, sex and trauma redefined music - and singing. But how do you hiss, whisper and sing at the same time?

The work is immensely taxing for orchestra and audience alike but was performed with precision and virtuosity, while, in the second half, a lean and lithe Beethoven's Seventh made for a gracious companion piece ...

Alongside a rather brittle Death and the Maiden, contemporary composers Iris ter Schiphorst adds a recorder to a string quartet while Marc Andre's miniatures study textures ...

Thibault Noally captures the exuberance of Hesse's 18th-century 'church opera' originally written for female voices ...

The darkness of Shostakovich's Symphony No 13 and Schoenberg's A Survivor From Warsaw had a haunting modern resonance ...

The late Peter Eötvös's slender and nuanced Secret Kiss didn't hold the attention; works by Julian Anderson, Lisa Illean and Rebecca Saunders fared better in this Birmingham Contemporary Music Group concert ...

Natalya Romaniw brings vulnerability and depth to Tosca and, in the pit, Eun Sun Kim conducts with subtlety and delicacy in this revival of Jonathan Kent's staging ...

The Royal Ballet and Opera have created a new role, allowing Jones to drive development and new commissions ...

Coliseum; Wigmore Hall; Regent Hall, LondonDonizetti's sparkling romcom is on a wartime footing in ENO's sitcom-style new production. And in a great week for brass premieres, enter 22 trombonesOne aphrodisiac fits all for the land girls in English ...

Lost on a train and reconstructed, Herbert Howells's youthful String Quartet No 3 is paired with the String Quartet No 6 by his teacher, Charles Wood ...