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Hugh Laurie Apologizes For ‘Drunken’ Outburst Over ‘House’ Criticism After Fans Attack Journalist Online

“I was sticking up for the writers whom I adored,” Hugh Laurie said in his apology after bashing a journalist for a ‘House’ review.

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Hugh Laurie sorry for outburst over House critique

Hugh Laurie has apologised for his reaction to someone poking fun at his TV show House, and admitted he was "very slightly drunk" when he responded.

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Hugh Laurie apologises for his scathing 'drunk' takedown of critic's House review

The actor, 66, admitted he was ‘already upset about something’ when he hit back at the review

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Hugh Laurie apologises for 'drunk' outburst over House critique

Hugh Laurie has apologised for his reaction to someone poking fun at House, and admitted he was "very slightly drunk" when he responded.

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Hourglass album review – Simone Dinnerstein gives Glass room to breathe

With a refreshingly organic approach, the US pianist and her string ensemble revitalise the modern minimalist master’s score for The Hours and his Tirol Concerto

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Tamara Stefanovich review – inspired and insightful programme celebrates Kurtág at 100

The pianist’s recital was a masterful essay in sound where the Hungarian composer’s short piano works were woven into and out of Debussy, Liszt and Bach

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Johann Ludwig Bach: The Leipzig Cantatas album review – this distant cousin’s music is a remarkable discovery

This is the premiere recording of sacred cantatas by JL Bach: works preserved due to his distant cousin, JS Bach, copying them for performance. Conductor Johanna Soller brings them to sensitive and vivid life

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Bach with more bite: how to listen to classical music's greatest ever composer

Hi-fi listening lessons from the GOAT

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MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio review – a magical choral performance

Roderick Williams and Rhian Lois were the perfectly matched vocal soloists as James MacMillan conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a ferociously committed performance of his own Christmas story

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Martin Fröst: BACH album review – silkily eloquent clarinettist brings freshness and fun

The virtuosic musician’s effortless phrasing and imaginative collaborations make this collection short but sweet

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JS Bach, Re-Imagined

To take our collective mind off of more disturbing news, a recommendation for some new music

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Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 album review – Mahan Esfahani’s reading is lucid and illuminating

The harpsichordist describes Bach’s Preludes and Fugues as a ‘challenge and a homecoming’. His thoughtful new recording has a sense of the work’s drama but is never wilful nor perverse

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Breaking Bach review – breakdancing thrillingly animates 300-year-old music

In an exhilarating performance choreographer Kim Brandstrup collaborates with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to make Bach feel new

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David Watkin obituary

Cellist who co-founded the Eroica Quartet and won awards for his recording of Bach’s six solo Suites

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Europe’s leading military powers

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about European military powers. You’ll hear about recent concerts featuring the music of JS Bach, as well as “The Listener’s Corner” with Paul Myers and Erwan Rome’s “Music from Erwan". All that and the new quiz and…

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The week in classical: Arias Reimagined; Rhythm of the Seasons; Out of the Deep; Turandot – review

In a good week for baroque experiments, Handel meets Britney Spears and AI, while a whirlwind percussionist unpicks Vivaldi

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Alexandros Kapelis/Berliner Barock Solisten review – ravishing period immersion in Bach’s keyboard concertos

The Solisten’s historically informed style played on modern instruments, with Kapelis’s crisp piano articulation, made for a musical equivalent of Bridgerton

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Olivier Latry review – Notre Dame’s organist brings his dancing feet to Bath’s Bachfest

Pairing works by three pillars of the French classical baroque with the great German composer, Latry’s glorious playing finished with dazzling improvisation

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Samson Tsoy: Inmost Heart: Bach, Brahms, Busoni, Reger review – the pianist’s subtle, searching debut

Playing Brahms’s transcriptions of Bach and Handel, then Reger and Busoni takes on Brahms, Tsoy contemplates creativity across centuries in this fine recital

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“You can only break the rules if you know what the rules are”: How changing up your chord voicing can make your music sound more expansive

Now you’ve composed the chords for your song, it’s time to find your inner voicing!

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JC Bach was the darling of Georgian London. Will his forgotten opera shake off the shadow of his celebrated father?

Publication of Lucio Silla by JS Bach’s youngest son could see his talent recognised once more in the city he made his home

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Subdued, sleepy and despised by snobs: how minimalist piano eclipsed classical music

Their soothing tones and hypnotic arpeggios amass gigantic listening figures on ‘chill’ Spotify playlists, but composers such as Nils Frahm are shunned by the classical world

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Forget Taylor Swift, tune into Bach for musical genius

Australian violinist Madeleine Easton heads an ensemble and choir dedicated to the music of J.S. Bach - and promises she will never run out of material.

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Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 album review – robust and muscular

While some generous expressive effects are occasionally overdone, the fugues are projected with verve and crispness, and show Suzuki at his best

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The week in classical: Cavalleria rusticana/Aleko; Bath BachFest review – passion and penitence

Opera North pairs Mascagni’s masterpiece with teenage Rachmaninov in a potent double bill. Plus, well-tuned extremes from Tenebrae and a blizzard of notes with Mahan Esfahani

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