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Thursday, 2 October 2025

Explaining the unexplainable: a seductive & magical album from Lotte Betts-Dean, Dimitris Soukaras, everything you've ever lived on Delphian

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everything you've ever lived: Baden Powell, Ravel, Seiber, de Falla, Richard Rodgers, Burt Bacharach, My Brightest Diamond, Vincente As...
Wednesday, 1 October 2025

The London Opera Company to perform Götterdämmerung this October

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Following sold out and critically acclaimed performances of Tristan und Isolde , Die Walküre [see my review ] and Siegfried [see Tony'...

Clarinet & strings: Coleridge-Taylor & a new Jago Thornton piece in the Sacconi Quartet's Sunday concert at Conway Hall with David Campbell

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Jago Thornton Jago Thornton, Shostakovich, Coleridge-Taylor; Sacconi Quartet, David Campbell; Conway Hall Sunday Concerts Reviewed 28 Septem...
Tuesday, 30 September 2025

The youngest female composer ever commissioned by the Ulster Orchestra, marking her debut with national ensemble: premiere of Amelia Clarkson's The Rain Keeps Coming at Ulster Hall

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Amelia Clarkson Amelia Clarkson is a Northern Irish composer from County Down and she currently works between Belfast and Manchester where s...

Letter from Florida: Tianyi Lu conducts Bartók & Brahms with Lukas Vondracek & New World Symphony

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Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3 - Lukas Vondracek (Photo: New World Symphony) Brahms: Academic Festival Overture , Bartók: Piano Concerto No. ...
Monday, 29 September 2025

Peter Wiegold: Being in the room. How to make it happen.

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Peter Wiegold Composer, conductor, collaborator and remarkable artistic creative, Peter Wiegold will be giving an online talk for School of ...

Upstairs at Ronnie's to host the first ever regular weekly classical night at Ronnie Scott's curated by Lizzie Ball & James Pearson

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James Pearson & Lizzie Ball (Photo: Monika C Jakubowska) Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club has announced that from February next year it is reope...

Engaging rom-com energy in Martin Constantine's not quite end of the pier production of Donizetti's The Elixir of Love at English Touring Opera

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Donizetti: The Elixir of Love - Timothy Nelson & chorus - English Touring Opera (Photo: © Richard Hubert Smith) Donizetti: The Elixir ...
Sunday, 28 September 2025

La Grande Audition de Leipzig: Paul Agnew & Les Arts Florissants take us to Leipzig in 1722 & 1723

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A 1723 engraving by Johann Gottfried Krügner of the Thomaskirche, Leipzig La Grande Audition de Leipzig ; Telemann, Kuhnau, Graupner, Bach; ...
Saturday, 27 September 2025

One little book sitting in a convent: Laurie Stras introduces the background to Musica Secreta's new recording of music from the Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript

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The Siege of Florence (1558) by Giorgio Vasari, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence San Matteo in Arcetri is the reddish building in the bottom left ...
Friday, 26 September 2025

Coleridge-Taylor at Conway Hall: Sacconi Quartet & David Cambell plus my pre-concert talk

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  The composer & his family - Samuel, Hiawatha Bruce, Gwendoline Avril & Jessie Coleridge-Taylor Photo courtesy of the Royal College...

From singing in pubs to staging Handel's penultimate Italian opera: Continuo Foundation brings total grants to over £1 million with latest round of funding

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The Continuo Foundation has just announced its 10th round of grants totalling £120,000. This brings the total the foundation has awarded sin...
Thursday, 25 September 2025

A declaration of love to a composer who, in many ways, transformed my path as a “classical” musician: pianist Vanessa Wagner on Philip Glass' Etudes

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Vanessa Wagner has been one of France’s most distinctive pianists for more than twenty years, equally at home in the classical repertoire a...
Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Iphigenia in Blackheath: community opera dares to go where few UK companies do with a compelling account of Gluck's French tragedy

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Gluck: Iphigenia in Tauris - Danny Shelvey (Orestes) & the Furies - Blackheath Halls Opera (Photo: Julian Guidera) Gluck: Iphigenia in ...
Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Cellist Natalie Clein joins Sinfonia Smith Square for a concert celebrating 40 years of The Stradivari Trust facilitating musicians acquiring instruments of the highest calibre

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Natalie Clein & her cello whose acquisition was facilitated by The Stradivari Trust (Photo: Michael Staab) The Stradivari Trust is cele...

New music, new appointments, Studio Ghibli & Queen: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's London season opens this week

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Emilia Hoving (Photo: Laura Oja) The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's London season opens this week.  They will be performing Mozart and M...

Elgar, Sibelius & beyond: Kenneth Woods & English Symphony Orchestra's Sibelius on ESO Digital

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Kenneth Woods & the English Symphony Orchestra (Photo: Michael Whitefoot) Based in Elgar's home-town of Malvern, the English Symphon...
Monday, 22 September 2025

New research shows that access to live music making can be the key to success in any career path: new survey from Making Music & Association of British Orchestras

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  Photo Credit: Royal Scottish National Orchestra © John Young A new survey has found that people who followed a career in the sciences, edu...

A very fresh, a summer album: Hummel & Bertini from Sestetto Classico on MDG

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Hummel: Quintet, Bertini: Grand Sextuor; Sestetto Classico; MDG Reviewed by Andreas Rey (22 September 2025) Two large-scale chamber works fr...
Saturday, 20 September 2025

There are no dividing lines: conductor Jakob Lehmann on bringing historically informed Rossini to Cadogan Hall with the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestra Révolutionnaire et Romantique

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Jakob Lehmann (Photo: Sercan Sevindik) As the Orchestra Révolutionnaire et Romantique makes its first foray into Rossini, we talk to conduc...

Style, enthusiasm & scholarship: Ian Page and The Mozartists explore Opera in 1775

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Haydn: L'incontro improvviso - Ava Dodd, Stephanie Hershaw, Chelsea Zurflüh, The Mozartists - Opera in 1775 - Cadogan Hall Opera in 17...
Friday, 19 September 2025

Dazzling music by famous Baroque composers in two stunning eighteenth-century Norwich venues

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Don’t miss the love :Handel Music Festival from The Brook Street Band this Autumn…  Photo: Dan Bridge The award-winning Brook Street Band re...

And there was dancing: Wild Arts' tour of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin concludes at Charterhouse with an immersive performance full of emotional truth

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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin - Wild Arts (Photo: Allan Titmuss) Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin ; Timothy Nelson, Galina Averina, Xavier Hethering...