Competition
Competition: Five deluxe pressings of Silfra to be won
We are giving away five deluxe heavyweight vinyl LPs of Silfra, the delicious new album by experimental pianist-composer Hauschka and internationally renowned concert violinist Hilary Hahn. Each comes with a beautiful poster, plus a free download of the album (in case you don't carry a record player around with you!). For a chance to win, just answer two simple questions about theartsdesk's coverage of Hauschka and Hahn.
new music

How ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ transformed a London mod-pop band

A set of graceful, wry melancholy from an Anglo-Canadian singer-songwriter duo
classical

A solstice sunrise swim crowned the best of times at this phoenix of a festival
Kolesnikov, Tsoy, Leonskaja, Ibragimova and Hecker in spellbinding performances
opera

Style comes and goes in a justifiably dark treatment of Handelian myth

Mostly glorious cast, sharp ideas, fussy conducting

Intimacy yields to spectacle as Beethoven's light of freedom triumphs
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