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Friday 26 July 2024
Pianist Stephen Osborne launches JW3's 2024/25 classical season
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Steven Osborne (Photo: Ben Ealovega) JW3, the Jewish Community Centre London, is celebrating ten years and its classical season is returning...
Igor Levit, Joyce DiDonato, Thomas Adès: Southbank Centre's Opening Weekend launches its 2024/25 season
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Igor Levit (Photo: Felix Broede) The Southbank Centre's 2024/25 season [see my preview ] starts with a bang featuring a five-day Opening...
Wednesday 24 July 2024
Taking elements of Western culture and seeing it through the lens of other classical traditions: four new music theatre works at the Barbican this Autumn
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Kangmin Justin Kim (Song Liling) and Mark Stone (René Gallimard) in rehearsal for the premiere of Huang Ruo's M. Butterfly at the Santa...
A world away from the Bibilical oratorio: Stanford's Walt Whitman setting is the focus for this disc from Wales of two of his large-scale choral works
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Charles Villiers Stanford: Te Deum, Elegiac Ode ; Rhian Lois, Samantha Price, Alessandro Fisher, Morgan Pearse, BBC National Orchestra &...
Tuesday 23 July 2024
Seeking professional Global Majority musicians and composers based in the North of England and the Midlands: Opera North's Resonance residency programme 2024/25
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Jasdeep Singh Degun performing Arya: concerto for sitar and orchestra with Orchestra of Opera North (Photo Justin Slee) Opera North's R...
Flower of Cities: a new festival celebrates the City of London with a distinctly Italian flavour
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A new festival will be enlivening the City of London in October. The rather awkwardly named City Festival of Music, Invention & Knowledg...
A vividly realised recording which does full justice to the complexity and vivid imagination of this music: rediscovering music by Latvian-American composer Gundaris Pone
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Gundaris Pone: La Serenissima, seven Venetian portraits for orchestra, American Portraits , Avanti! ; Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, Guntis K...
Monday 22 July 2024
New work, young artists, established favourites: University of Birmingham's Barber Concerts
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The University of Birmingham's Elgar Concert Hall The University of Birmingham has announced its programme of lunchtime and evening conc...
Forty Years of Inspiring Musicians: Carol Main MBE FRC will step back from her role as Director of Live Music Now Scotland – a post she has held since the founding of this organisation in 1984
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Twogether Duo and Carol Main Live Music Now was the brainchild of Lord Menuhin, and has provided talented musicians at the outset of their c...
Saturday 20 July 2024
Returning to Northern Ireland Opera for his third role, British-Ukrainian baritone Yuriy Yurchuk talks about his continuing exploration of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
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Yuriy Yurchuk Baritone Yuriy Yurchuk sings the title role in Northern Ireland Opera 's new production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegi...
Relentlessly entertaining: Louise Bakker's new production of Handel's Acis and Galatea at Opera Holland Park rather over-eggs things but features finely engaging soloists
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Handel: Acis and Galatea - chorus - Opera Holland Park (Photo: Ali Wright) Handel: Acis and Galatea ; Elizabeth Karani, Anthony Gregory, Ch...
Friday 19 July 2024
The Waves: Louis Mander and Tamsin Treverton Jones' operatic adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel to premiere in Oslo
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Virginia Woolf: The Waves cover of the first edition, designed by Vanessa Bell Virginia Woolf's 1931 novel, The Waves , is regarded as h...
From familiar works to brand-new pieces: Autumn at Snape Maltings
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Barbara Hepworth: Family of Man - Snape Maltings, winter 2021 (Photo: Shoel Stadlen, courtesy Britten Pears Arts) The Autumn season at Snap...
Thursday 18 July 2024
Contemporary contrasts: Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci make highly satisfying double bill at Opera Holland Park
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Wolf-Ferrari: Il segreto di Susanna - John Savournin - Opera Holland Park (Photo: Ali Wright) Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Il segreto di Susanna ;...
Wednesday 17 July 2024
Belgian ensemble, Ayres Extemporae, winners of the 2024 York International Young Artists Competition at the National Centre for Early Music
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Ayres Extemporae, winners of the 2024 York International Young Artists Competition The 2024 York International Young Artists Competition to...
A sound world that is at once distinctive, appealing and engaging: Maria Faust's Mass of Mary on Estonian Record Productions
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Maria Faust: Mass of Mary; Collegium Musicale, Helina Kuljus, Lili Kirikal, Oliver Povel, Maria Faust, Kirstjan Kungla, Indrek Vau, Andres K...
An intergenerational community: Garsington Opera brings its Youth and Adult community companies together for Andrew Norman's A Trip to the Moon
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Andrew Norman: A Trip to the Moon - Youth Company rehearsal, Garsington Opera 2024 (Photo: Julian Guidera) American composer Andrew Norman ...
Tuesday 16 July 2024
A rich sophistication of thought running through this programme that seems worlds away from the typical debut recital: Awakenings from Laurence Kilsby & Ella O'Neill
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Awakenings : Brahms, Saint-Saens, Wolf, Schoenberg, Stenhamer, Rebecca Clarke, Prokofiev, Hugh Wood, Jake Heggie, Weill, Britten: Laurence K...
Appealing to an opera audience with song repertoire: Opera in Song returns to Opera Holland Park
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Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin - James Baillieu, Julien Van Mellaerts, Christopher Purves - Opera in Song at Opera Holland Park, 2022 Opera ...
Monday 15 July 2024
London Mozart Players in 2024/25: Resident at Fairfield Halls, performing at Smith Square Hall & on the South coast, plus a new season at St Martin-in-the-Fields
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London Mozart Players is resident at Fairfield Halls, Croydon and performs at Smith Square Hall and on the South coast, but in addition the ...
Dynamic duo: director Adele Thomas and creative producer Sarah Crabtree to take over as WNO's General Director and CEO
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Adele Thomas Welsh National Opera has announced that opera and theatre director Adele Thomas and creative producer Sarah Crabtree will joint...
Fine singing and vivid character in this revival of John Cox's vintage production of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at Garsington
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro - David Ireland, Claire Lees - Garsington Opera, 2024 (Photo: Julian Guidera) Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro ; David...
Saturday 13 July 2024
An intuitive abstract Sudoku working with sound parameters and with no single solution: Chilean composer Aníbal Vidal on writing music
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The Brompton Quartet, Aníbal Vidal & Ignacio LusardiMonteverde at recording session for Cuerdas y Rugidos Chilean composer Aníbal Vidal ...
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