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Recordings of works by Elgar, Stravinsky, Beethoven and Ravel are shortlisted for the Concerto Award at this year's Gramophone Classical Music Awards

Les Siècles impress with fiendishly tricky Ligeti chamber works.

★★★★☆This was a concert where you really had to keep your ears close to the ground. Did that faint squeak emanate from the violin soloist, a fortepiano or the A

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"Have you heard Dutch & Dutch? If you haven't, you must." Time and again, variations on that theme were voiced either by me or many of the attendees I chatted with at the show. As far as I can recall, my encounter with the Dutch & Dutch 8c active loudspeakers ($15,000/pair) is the first time I have heard this company's offerings. (They've only exhibited at two shows.) I sure hope it will be far from the last.

It took two visits until this room got silent enough for me to get a handle on what was going on sound-wise. There was a lot going on, and it was not always easy to parse. The big items of note were prototype Spatial Audio Lab open-baffle loudspeakers (price and release date TBD) that descend to 30Hz and two components from Don Sachs and Lynn Olson Design, the Statement 300B monoblock amplifiers ($18,500–$19,900/pair) and Raven preamplifier ($4600). Both products will be manufactured by Spatial...

François-Xavier Roth led an exhilarating and illuminating programme that moved through 80 years of French music, from Berlioz to Boulanger

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From Portuguese Fado to the Rite of Spring played from memory, a Horrible Histories opera and a tribute to a Bollywood legend, there’s something for everyone

As the BBC unveils this year’s Proms programme, we pick 10 concerts not to be missed