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Tuesday 22 October 2024
Sinfonia Smith Square’s Fellowship programme welcomes 34 talented new graduate musicians for 2024/25
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Sinfonia Smith Square (Photo: Camila Pastorelli) Every year, Sinfonia Smith Square’s Fellowship programme welcomes 34 talented graduate musi...
Over-arching themes and influences: Andrew Ford's The Shortest History of Music
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Andrew Ford: The Shortest History of Music Old Street Publishing 234 pages, 45 images Reviewed 21 October 2024 Global musical history digest...
Myths and Legends: Wexford Festival Opera to perform Verdi's Le trouvère at 2025 Festival
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When the Paris Opera planned to give the first performance at the theatre of Verdi's Otello the maestro was extremely puzzled when it w...
Monday 21 October 2024
Music and movement: new musicians in Liverpool, new artistic directors in Brighton & George Jackson continues in Amarillo
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Domingo Hindoyan and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in 2022 The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has welcomed six new musicians into its...
Inventive and imaginative: Olivia Fuchs' successfully reinvents Rimsky Korsakov's The Snowmaiden for English Touring Opera
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Rimsky Korsakov: The Snowmaiden - English Touring Opera (Photo: © Richard Hubert Smith) Rimsky Korsakov: The Snowmaiden ; Ffion Edwards, Ki...
Saturday 19 October 2024
Portraits of a troubled family: Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti & A Quiet Place at the Royal Opera House
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Bernstein: A Quiet Place - Henry Neill, Elgan Llyr Thomas - Royal Ballet & Opera (Photo: Marc Brenner/ROH) Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti...
Leading with a love that inspires: Canadian ensemble, Tafelmusik has a new collaboration with violinist Rachel Podger & a new disc of Haydn symphonies under her direction
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Tafelmusik & Rachel Podger (Photo: Dahlia Katz) Tafelmusik , the Canadian period instrument ensemble, recently appointed violinist Rache...
Friday 18 October 2024
London Opera Company returns with a full-scale performance of Wagner's Siegfried
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Wagner: Die Walküre - The London Opera Company, November 2023 London Opera Company presented a full-scale performance of Wagner's Die ...
Thursday 17 October 2024
UK premiere of Ludwig Göransson’s suite from Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer at the Royal College of Music
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Christopher Nolan's enormously successful 2023 film, Oppenheimer (seven Oscars, seven Golden Globes, five BAFTAs) about the life of J. ...
Wednesday 16 October 2024
A themed programme with an imaginative difference: Music from Pole to Pole with City of London Sinfonia and atmospheric physicist Dr Simon Clark
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Music from Pole to Pole - City of London Sinfonia and Dr Simon Clark at Smith Square Hall - (Photo: Suzi Corker) Music from Pole to Pole: ...
A Christmas Carol this isn't: The Telling's What the Dickens!
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For their latest show, playwright/singer Clare Norburn and her company The Telling have turned to the private life of Charles Dickens. With ...
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Tuesday 15 October 2024
Nominations announced for the 2024 Ivors Classical Awards
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Jonathan Dove: Itch - Adam Temple Smith as Itch and Victoria Simmonds as Watkins - Opera Holland Park 2023 (Photo: Craig Fuller) Celebrating...
Sound magic: En Couleur from the percussion group, Trio Colores
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En Couleur : Saint-Saens, Ravel, Tailleferre, Debussy, Milhaud; Trio Colores (Fabian Ziegler, Luca Staffelbach and Matthias Kessper); Solo ...
Ethel Smyth returns to Germany: The Wreckers in Karlsruhe, The Wreckers - Der Leuchtturm des Todes in Meiningen, Strandrecht in Schwerin
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Ethel Smyth: The Wreckers - Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (Photo: Felix Grünschloß) Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers has a fascinatingly...
Monday 14 October 2024
Earth Unwrapped: Sirens for a wounded planet - Kings Place's latest year-long series announced
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Kings Place's 17th instalment in its year-long Unwrapped series will be exploring our relationship with nature and the eco-system, plan...
nonclassical at 20: legendary music promoter celebrates with a concert alongside the London Symphony Orchestra including five world premieres
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" in music many people are never exposed to long-form compositions, or more challenging works; and I think they should be " noncla...
From expressionist nightmare to radiant energy: Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire & Schubert's String Quintet at Hatfield
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Queen Elizabeth I awaiting the performance of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire in the Marble Hall at Hatfield House Schoenberg: Pierrot Lun...
Sunday 13 October 2024
The pairing of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Actéon with Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Pygmalion proved a perfect double-bill for baroque aficionados offering a delightful, entertaining and pleasant evening
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Page from the edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses published by Lucantonio Giunti in Venice, 1497 Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Actéon, Jean-Phi...
Intimate & communicative: Solomon's Knot brings its distinctive approach to Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 at Wigmore Hall
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Title page of the "Bassus Generalis" for one of the partbooks in which the Vespers were published in 1610 Monteverdi: Vespers of 1...
Saturday 12 October 2024
Waiting till they feel they have something to say: I chat to Trio Bohémo about their debut disc
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Trio Bohémo Formed in 2019 by three Czech musicians, Matouš Pěruška (violin), Kristina Vocetková (cello) and Jan Vojtek (piano), Trio Bohémo...
Thursday 10 October 2024
Alma: Ella Milch-Sheriff's opera based on the life of Alma Mahler premieres Vienna Volksoper
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Alma Mahler remains a fascinating figure. Musically active as a composer, albeit for a relatively short time, her life has been rather overs...
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