NOTÍCIAS DE LONDRES -THE GUARDIAN

• Why Shostakovich needed a laptop

  Tristan Jakob-Hoff: New software gives composers access to millions of pre-recorded instrumental sounds. Will they ever need to employ a real orchestra again?

• Spitalfields Winter festival

  

  19 Dec 2008:

  Christ Church Spitalfields, London
  The feeling this venue offers of being tucked away in a beautiful capsule is inspiring, Erica Jeal

• BBCSO/Knussen

  

  19 Dec 2008:

  Barbican, London
  Elliott Carter's productivity continues to amaze, says Andrew Clements

• The Berlin Phil - live in your own front room

  19 Dec 2008:

  The Berlin Philharmonic has launched the world's first digital concert hall, to be broadcast live on the internet

• La Bohème

  

  19 Dec 2008:

  The movie always looks like the filmed record of an unadventurous theatrical staging, says Peter Bradshaw

• • Editors' picks

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    'It's a good way of learning new repertoire and getting performing experience'

    Audio (5min 30sec), Donald MacLeod visits Bel Canto, in the City of London, where budding opera stars perform for diners.

  • Why Shostakovich needed a laptop

    Tristan Jakob-Hoff: New software gives composers access to millions of pre-recorded instrumental sounds. Will they ever need to employ a real orchestra again?

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  • Spitalfields Winter festival

    

    19 Dec 2008:

    Christ Church Spitalfields, London
    The feeling this venue offers of being tucked away in a beautiful capsule is inspiring, Erica Jeal

  • BBCSO/Knussen

    

    19 Dec 2008:

    Barbican, London
    Elliott Carter's productivity continues to amaze, says Andrew Clements

  • The Berlin Phil - live in your own front room

    19 Dec 2008:

    The Berlin Philharmonic has launched the world's first digital concert hall, to be broadcast live on the internet

  • La Bohème

    

    19 Dec 2008:

    The movie always looks like the filmed record of an unadventurous theatrical staging, says Peter Bradshaw

  • In a world of its own

    19 Dec 2008:

    Classical crossover is the strange realm where Bryan Adams meets Italian arias in syrupy productions delivered by ersatz opera singers. And it sells millions. Tom Service investigates

  • Online joy from the Berlin Philharmonic and Elliott Carter

    18 Dec 2008:

    Tom Service: Live streaming of the Berlin Philharmonic and a host of Elliott Carter materials are just a fraction of the remarkable online classical music resources on offer at present

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  • Messiah

    

    18 Dec 2008:

    St David's Hall, Cardiff:
    Cardiff Polyphonic Choir sang with practised ease, but occasionally lacked substance, writes Rian Evans

  • Steven Isserlis 50th Birthday Concert

    18 Dec 2008:

    Wigmore Hall, London:
    Elusive pianist Radu Lupu made this celebratory concert, writes Erica Jeal

  • Arvo Pärt's latest score can be seen but not yet heard

    17 Dec 2008:

    Tom Service: Universal Edition have released the score of Avro Pärt's new symphony online before a note of it has been played in public

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  • A tale of two Hansel and Gretels: Opera North and the Royal Opera

    17 Dec 2008:

    Opera North did it with a six-piece band, and an audience of squirming 9-year-olds. The Royal Opera production was all about luxury casting and a sublime orchestral sound. Yet it was Opera North that won hands down

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  • Joyce DiDonato/Les Talens Lyriques

    

    17 Dec 2008:

    Barbican, London
    This American mezzo could scarcely have been more expressive, reports George Hall

  • LPO/Jurowski

    

    16 Dec 2008:

    Royal Festival Hall, London
    Jurowski takes a while to generate the requisite sense of narcotic irrationality, says Tim Ashley

  • Joanna MacGregor

    

    16 Dec 2008:

    St. George's, Bristol
    The whole sensation here was of being part of a soundscape and aspiring to infinity, says Rian Evans

  • Don Rosenberg fights back

    15 Dec 2008:

    Tom Service: A critic barred from reviewing an orchestra because he had criticised its musical director is suing his former employer

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  • Six of the best

    15 Dec 2008:

    Is there life after Alfred Brendel? Andrew Clements picks today's other unmissable pianists