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Monday, 20 March 2023

Rachmaninoff, Rossini, young artists and John Casken's The Shackled King: the 2023 Newbury Spring Festival

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Sheepdrove, one of the venues for this year's Newbury Spring Festival The Newbury Spring Festival has been running since 1979 and this y...

Gilbert & Sullivan : All-singing, all-dancing small-scale Ruddigore at Wilton's Music Hall

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Gilbert & Sullivan: Ruddigore - Peter Benedict, Charli Baptie - Oracle Productions at Wilton's Music Hall (Photo by Mark Senior) Gil...
Saturday, 18 March 2023

A nice mix of Wagner, Franck and Saint-Saens: Anton Hanson of Quatuor Hanson, on the chamber version of Chausson's Poème on their disc, Chants nostalgiques

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Quatuor Hanson (Jules Dussap, Simon Dechambre, Gabrielle Lafait, Anton Hanson ) Having already released discs of quartets by Haydn ( All Sha...
Friday, 17 March 2023

Bringing song to South East London: Jocelyn Freeman's SongEasel celebrates its fifth anniversary with Quintessential Song

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SongEasel's 2020 project, MiniWinterreise  with Nigerian soprano, Francesca Chiejina Pianist Jocelyn Freeman's SongEasel, tag-line &...

Italian opera, Monteverdi and more: the Northern Aldborough Festival in 2023

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St Andrew’s Church, Aldborough The Northern Aldborough Festival takes place in the picturesque Roman village of Aldborough, just half an hou...

A real celebration of a maverick talent: Snakebite! Stephen Montague at 80, at St John's Smith Square

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Stephen Montague celebrating his birthday on 10 March 1944 with his mother in Baldwinsville, NY (Photo courtesy of Stephen Montague) Snakebi...
Thursday, 16 March 2023

Frida, Maria & co: Leeds Opera Festival goes Latin American for 2023

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There is a Latin American theme to the 2023 Leeds Opera Festival. Taking place in over a dozen venues across Leeds and organised by Northern...

A wonderful sense of poetry: Timothy Ridout in Lionel Tertis' viola transcription of Elgar's Cello Concerto

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Elgar: Cello Concerto , transcribed for viola by Lionel Tertis, Bloch: Suite for Viola and Orchestra ; Timothy Ridout, BBC Symphony Orchestr...
Wednesday, 15 March 2023

Celebrating Wren and his church: Tercentenary festival at St Stephen's Walbrook

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St Stephen Walbrook Architect and polymath,  Sir Christopher Wren died 300 years ago this year. In addition to the various celebrations of W...

Classical music and more: Bath Festival 2023

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Bath Festival in 2022 - Steve Reich's Drumming with Colin Currie Quartet at Bath Abbey The Bath Festival is running from 12 to 21 May th...

This is my body: Figure's imaginative rethinking of Buxtehude's intense sung devotion, Membra Jesu Nostri

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Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri - Figure at the Swiss Church Dietrich Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri; Figure, Frederic Waxman; The Swiss Churc...
Tuesday, 14 March 2023

Welcome to Cheltenham Music Festival 2023: Music by 40 contemporary composers and the 10th anniversary of the Composers Academy

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The Old Courthouse in Cheltenham, venue for two late-night electronic sets at Cheltenham Music Festival (Photo: Mark Watkins, from Glouceste...

The Horizons of Doubt: celebrating the BBC Singers celebrating Stephen McNeff

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BBC Singers (Photo: BBC) It seems horribly apt that the title of Stephen McNeff 's new choral piece for the BBC Singers, to be premiered...

Imaginative programming, unusual location, exceptional music-making: Nonclassical's The Greenhouse Effect at the Barbican Conservatory

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The Greenhouse Effect - Nonclassical at the Barbican Conservatory (Photo: Mark Allan / Barbican) The Greenhouse Effect : Gabriel Prokofiev: ...
Monday, 13 March 2023

Imagination and belief in a hostile climate: new seasons from Welsh National Opera and Opera North

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Golijov's Ainadamar  at Scottish Opera, a production coming to Welsh National Opera (Photo James Glossop) New seasons from Welsh Nationa...

More than just a rarity: Tchaikovsky's first surviving opera, Oprichnik, gets a vibrant performance from Chelsea Opera Group

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Tchaikovsky, aged 33 in January 1874  Photographed by Alfred Lorenz in Saint Petersburg (Photo Tchaikovsky Research Project ) Tchaikovsky: O...
Sunday, 12 March 2023

Late-Romantic atmosphere & emotional turmoil: Ethel Smyth's Der Wald gets a rare outing

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Ethel Smyth: Der Wald ; Becca Marriott, Jacob Bettinelli, Louis Hurst, Lizzie Ryder, Martins Smaukstelis, Francesca Lauri, Panaretos Kyriatz...
Saturday, 11 March 2023

Snakebite! composer Stephen Montague at 80

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Stephen Montague If you ask composer Stephen Montague about the style of his music, his response is likely to echo the maverick American co...
Friday, 10 March 2023

Daylight Music is back with two Piano Days

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Daylight Music East London's favourite and most dynamic music series, Daylight Music  is back on Saturday 11 March with the first of two...

Britten Sinfonia's Play On appeal

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Britten Sinfonia at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden (Photo: Tom Lovatt) Britten Sinfonia has launched a £1 million appeal to help secure its fu...

Sending everyone away with a smile: Academy of Ancient Music in Purcell and Locke

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Matthew Locke Locke, Humfrey, Banister, Reggio: The Tempest , Purcell: Hail! Bright Cecilia ; Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings; M...
Thursday, 9 March 2023

Requiem: Journeys of the Soul - For LEEDS 2023, Opera North, Phoenix Dance Theatre & Jazzart Dance Theatre in a staged Mozart Requiem

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Phoenix Dance Theatre dancers in rehearsal for Requiem (Photo:   Point of View Photography) As part of LEEDS 2023 Year of Culture, two Leeds...

Shifting harmonies & tonal instability: Kitty Whately & Joseph Middleton are sympathetic & communicative in their programme of late-Romantic lieder on Befreit: A Soul Surrendered

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Befreit: A Soul Surrendered   - songs by Johanna Müller-Hermann, Richard Strauss, Margarete Schweikert, Gustav Mahler; Kitty Whately, Joseph...
Wednesday, 8 March 2023

National Centre for Early Music celebrates International Women’s Day, now & throughout the year!

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Ensemble Moliere The National Centre for Early Music (NCEM) is celebrating International Women’s Day in style this year with a new compositi...

Sign the petition: BBC announces the disbanding of the BBC Singers

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The BBC Singers Please sign the  petition  to urge the BBC to stop this ridiculous and short-sighted decision. Full details at  change.org ....