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Wednesday, 21 April 2021

A disc to enjoy: William Towers and Armonico Consort in Handelian Pyrotechnics

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Handelian Pyrotechnics ; William Towers, Armonico Consort, Christopher Monks; SIGNUM Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 19 April 2021 St...

Spitalfields Music Festival 2021: from fifteen new works to Stravinsky's the Rite of Spring on pianola

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Alicia Jane Turner, a place to call home The Spitalfields Music Festival is back with a bang this July with a programme which includes fifte...

Mary's Music Cafe: Celebrating the life of Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft 's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman title page from the first American edition Newington Green Meeting House is...
Tuesday, 20 April 2021

Rosalind Ventris and Joseph Fort to be new artistic directors of the Cowbridge Music Festival

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Cowbridge Physic Garden with Holy Cross church tower and Old Grammar School in background. For those that don't know it, Cowbridge ( in ...

Vache Baroque Festival is back

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Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at Vache Baroque Festival in September 2020 Last September (2020), the Vache Baroque Festival launched with p...

Flight at the museum: Seattle Opera's new film imaginatively re-locates Jonathan Dove's opera

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Jonathan Dove: Flight - Damien Geter, Randall Scotting - Seattle Opera (Photo Philip Newton) Jonathan Dove Flight ; Randall Scotting, Sh...
Monday, 19 April 2021

Edinburgh innovations: the 2021 festival will involve three new temporary outdoor pavilions and streamed performances

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Edinburgh University Old College Quad Like most other Summer festivals, the Edinburgh International Festival was cancelled last year, but fo...

A ray of hope: hcmf// and Irtijal's Istimrar commissions

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The last year has been devastating in Lebanon, with the August 2020 explosion in Beirut on top of everything else happening at the moment, a...

Fantasie Nègre - The Piano Music of Florence Price

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Fantasie Nègre: The Piano Music of Florence Price ; Samantha Ege; Lorelt Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 16 April 2021 Star rating: 4...
Sunday, 18 April 2021

A Life On-Line: rare Vaughan Williams, unknown Venetians, Welsh language opera, vertical harpsichords

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  Academy of Ancient Music at West Road Concert Hall (Photo Academy of Ancient Music) This week we moved from relatively unknown 20th centur...

New Beginnings indeed: the Royal Northern Sinfonia and its principal conductor designate, Dinis Sousa, launch Sage Gateshead's new live season

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Berlioz: Les nuits d'été - Dame Sarah Connolly, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Dinis Sousa at Sage Gateshead (photo taken from live-stream)...
Saturday, 17 April 2021

When 2020 forced the cancellation of the first Riga Jurmala Academy in Latvia, it moved its programme of masterclasses on-line: I find out more from director Toms Ostrovskis

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Toms Ostrovskis and student during Riga Jurmala Academy masterclass with Leif Ove Andsnes (Photo Reinis Oliņš) When the pandemic cancelled t...
Friday, 16 April 2021

Oxford Philharmonic's Music & Maths: Baroque & Beyond

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Marcus du Sautoy and the Oxford Philharmonic On Sunday 18 April 2021, the Oxford Philharmonic, conductor Marios Papadopoulos, will be presen...

Welsh National Opera is 75

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Yesterday (15 April 2021) marked Welsh National Opera's 75th birthday. The company's first performance was on 5 April 1946 at Princ...

Youthful opportunities: musical activities for young people and more from Opera North, the Liverpool Phil and Welsh National Opera

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Opera North Orchestra Academy (Photo Justin Slee) Nowadays, community engagement for professional music ensembles (orchestras, opera compani...

A name to watch: American counter-tenor Randall Scotting sings the Refugee in Jonathan Dove's Flight in Seattle (and on-line)

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  Jonathan Dove: Flight - Randall Scotting - Seattle Opera (Photo Philip Newton) The young American counter-tenor Randall Scotting is very m...
Thursday, 15 April 2021

Now a well-established on-line concert series, Sands Films created The Music Room in their film studio as a response to 2020's lack of performances for artists

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Music Antica Rotherhithe at Sands Films' The Music Room (taken from live-stream) Sands Films' The Music Room has become a regular fi...

Music positively explodes from the disc: Australian group Ensemble Offspring's Offspring Bites 3

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En Masse: Offspring Bites3 - Alex Pozniak, Holly Harrison, Thomas Meadowcroft; Ensemble Offspring Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 13 ...
Wednesday, 14 April 2021

Richard Strauss satirising his publisher & exploring exoticism with vertiginously high vocals: Unerhört (Outrageous) from tenor Daniel Behle and pianist Oliver Schnyder

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Unerhört - Richard Strauss; Daniel Behle, Oliver Schnyder; Prospero Classical Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 13 April 2021 Star rat...

Ryedale Festival launches its 40th birthday celebrations with on-line Spring festival

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The Long Gallery, Castle Howard (Photo Heikki Immonen via Wikipedia ) The Ryedale Festival is 40 this year and there will be celebratory fes...
Tuesday, 13 April 2021

James Blades' Percussion Instruments and their History

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Legendary percussionist James Blades' Percussion Instruments and their History was first published in 1971 (with an introduction from B...

Winchester Chamber Music Festival - live and on-line

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St Paul's Church, Winchester Like many smaller festivals this year, the Winchester Chamber Music Festival is having to be creative. The ...

Manchester Song Festival: Kathryn Rudge, Kathrine Broderick, and RNCM Songsters at Stoller Hall

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Manchester Song Festival - Ruth Gibson, Kathryn Stott, Katherine Broderick (image taken from live stream) Manchester Song Festival; Kathry...
Monday, 12 April 2021

Towards Perfection: the idea of an ideal version of an opera has not always played out in history, with composers being surprisingly willing to rewrite works to suit circumstances

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Stuart Laing, Kristy Swift & ensemble - Beethoven's 1804 Leonore at the Buxton Festival , 2016 (photo Robert Workman) Whilst it mig...

Quite how they did it: Tête à Tête's Lessons From Live Opera In 2020: The Movie

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Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival at Cockpit Theatre in 2020, with a real live audience (Photo Claire Shovelton) During 2020, Tête à Têt...

Opera North announces its journey back from Lockdown with Beethoven, Sondheim and Rap

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Rachel Nicholls as Leonore in Opera North’s Autumn 2020 production of Beethoven’s Fidelio (Photo Richard H Smith) Opera North has announced ...

We Will Not Be Muted: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's Tectonics goes on-line

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San Andreas transform fault on the Carrizo Plain The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s annual festival of new and experimental music returns...