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Damiano Michieletto's production of Offenbach's opéra fantastique is full of warped wit and devilish touches with a fine cast bringing this colourful fever-dream to life ...

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment combine virtuosity with a practised nonchalance to soothe our age's anxieties ...

Inspired by the South Downs near Brighton, this selection box of new work from contemporary composers is English to its core - and yet defies tradition ...

Vikingur Ólafsson's performance of Brahms's first piano concerto was the evening's main attraction, but those who left at the interval missed the world premiere of Freya Waley-Cohen's ambitious and rich Mother Tongue ...

On a record where instruments matter more than the music, Horsch celebrates Brüggen and the remarkable 17th and 18th-century recorders he collected ...

The French pianist revels in the virtuoso demands of Brahms's early sonata ...

One wrote six sonatas and claimed they were by Haydn. Another used a ghostwriter to write his symphony - and pretended to be deaf. So how did they manage to hoodwink the experts?

Making their second visit to the capital this year, a frail Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra played sun-drenched Mendelssohn and stately Brahms with command and beauty ...

The Russian-born pianist's solo recital took in Russian and French music; she is a persuasive advocate of Mel Bonis's keyboard works ...

On the day that Radio 3 launches Unwind, a station dedicated to calming and restorative music, we choose instead the pieces we go to to excite, motivate and thrill us ...