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Monday, 18 August 2025

Travelling hopefully: defying age & ill health, Daniel Barenboim conducts his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Wagner, Mendelssohn & Beethoven at the Salzburg Festival

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Wagner: Siegfried Idyll - Daniel Barenboim, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra - Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg Festival (Photo: SF/Marco Borell...
Sunday, 17 August 2025

Youthful tragedy and transcendental mystery: Riccardo Muti & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Schubert & Bruckner at Salzburg Festival

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Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Riccardo Muti - Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg Festival (Photo: SF/Marco Borelli) Schubert:  Symphony No. 4 ...
Saturday, 16 August 2025

Strange & intriguing: Dmitri Tcherniakov directs his first Baroque opera with Handel's Giulio Cesare in Salzburg

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Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto - Robert Raso (Curio), Lucile Richardot (Cornelia), Yuriy Mynenko (Tolomeo), Andrey Zhilikhovsky (Achilla)...
Tuesday, 12 August 2025

Award-winning Michael Morpurgo-based animated film, Kensuke’s Kingdom with score by Stuart Hancock now on BBC iPlayer

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The animated feature film Kensuke’s Kingdom had its British network TV premiere earlier this month on Sunday, 3 August on BBC One, which me...

Violinist Zoë Beyers to replace Jacqueline Shave and Thomas Gould as Leader of Britten Sinfonia

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Zoë Beyers leads Britten Sinfonia at Westminster Abbey (Photo: Shoël Stadlen) Britten Sinfonia has announced that violinist Zoë Beyers is to...

Pianist Cyrill Ibrahim joins World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens as artist in residence

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Cyrill Ibrahim From September 2025, pianist Cyrill Ibrahim will be the new artist in residence at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens. A firm ...
Monday, 11 August 2025

Celebrating Barbara Hepworth: a new violin concerto by Nick Martin with Tamsin Waley-Cohen & Manchester Camerata

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Barbara Hepworth: Sphere with Inner Form , 1963, at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands 50 years after her death, a new viol...

Glasgow Cathedral Festival: celebrating the city's 850th anniversary with a poetic imagining of the story of St. Enoch, mother of the city's founder

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Evening concert at Glasgow Cathedral Festival  Glasgow Cathedral Festival returns from 18–21 September 2025, for its ninth edition bringing ...

Hearing Colour: classical music at the Royal Pavilion with a piano made for King George IV

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A detail of A C Pugin’s drawing of the Entrance Hall, Brighton Pavilion c1821 English piano maker Thomas Tomkison (c1764-1853) made a succe...
Saturday, 9 August 2025

Going where no other company has dared: Green Opera gives the stage premiere of Joubert's Jane Eyre in a full-blooded performance at Grimeborn Festival

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Joubert: Jane Eyre - Laura Mekhail (Jane) - Green Opera at Grimeborn Festival, Arcola Theatre - (Photo: Camilla Greenwell) John Joubert: Ja...

New challenge and new repertoire: trumpeter Matilda Lloyd her new disc, Fantasia, pairing four contemporary pieces with Baroque music

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Matilda Lloyd (Photo: Geoffroy Schied) When I met up for coffee with Matilda Lloyd last month, she was laden down with five trumpets, rang...
Friday, 8 August 2025

I Shall Hear In Heaven: Tama Matheson impressively incarnates Beethoven in an evening that puts music alongside the spoken word

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Tama Matheson as Beethoven in his play, Beethoven: I Shall Hear In Heaven Tama Matheson: Beethoven: I Shall Hear In Heaven ; Tama Matheson, ...
Wednesday, 6 August 2025

In search of Louis Spohr: WDR Chamber Players record six discs of Spohr's string chamber music for Pentatone

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Carl Heinrich Arnold (1793-1874) - String quartet in the Spohr house , c. 1840 CC BY-NC-SA © Internationale Louis Spohr Gesellschaft e.V., S...

BBC Proms - Classics, bon-bons and an engagingly fresh account of an enduring masterpiece, Nil Venditti conducts BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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Great British Classics - BBC Singers, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Nil Venditti - BBC Proms 2025 (Photo: BBC / Chris Christodoulou) Gre...
Tuesday, 5 August 2025

Lammermuir Festival 2025: Laura van der Heijden in residence, complete Ravel piano music, Walton/Ravel opera double bill

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This year's Lammermuir Festival runs from 4 to 15 September 2025, your chance to hear some of the world’s finest musicians in the histor...

Bayreuth Festival: Thorliefur Örn Arnarsson’s interpretation of 'Tristan und Isolde' is a well-planned and thoughtful affair.

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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde  (Act 1) - Ekaterina Gubanova (Brangäne), Andreas Schager (Tristan), Jordan Shanahan (Kurwenal), Camilla Nylund (...
Monday, 4 August 2025

Puccini's final version of La Rondine, a recital from Simon Boccanegra and Donizetti Songs: Opera Rara's 2025/26 season

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Ermonela Jaho & Carlo Rizzi recording Donizetti for Opera Rara (Photo: Russell Duncan) By and large, Puccini's operas do not have co...

All-consuming: Kateřina Kněžíková's account of the title role lights up Damiano Michieletto's overly conceptual production of Janáček's Káťa Kabanová at Glyndebourne

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Janáček: Káťa Kabanová - Kateřina Kněžíková - Glyndeburne (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith) Janáček: Káťa Kabanová; Kateřina Kněžíková, Nicky ...
Saturday, 2 August 2025

Detect Classic Festival 2025: Exploring 'The Meaning of Live' Music in a Digital Age

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Tucked away in the rural quiet of northern Germany, Detect Classic Festival has, over the past few years, established itself as one of the ...
Friday, 1 August 2025

BBC Proms: Arvo Pärt at 90

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Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tõnu Kaljuste - BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall (Photo: BBC/Chris Christodoulou) Arvo Pärt, Galina ...
Thursday, 31 July 2025

Baltic Tides: piano music by two important Baltic pianist composers, Lūcija Garūta & Ester Mägi makes for a marvellous, compelling disc

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Baltic Tides : piano music by Lūcija Garūta and Ester Mägi; Eva Maria Doroszkowska; First Hand Records Reviewed 30 July 2025 A marvellous di...