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Friday, 14 March 2025

Musical Moves: Guy Verrall-Withers, co-founder and artistic director of Waterperry Opera Festival, becomes director of audiences & impact at The Grange Festival

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Rebecca Meltzer, Bertie Baigent & Guy Verrall-Withers with the Waterperry Opera Festival team in 2024 The arts administration world is r...
Thursday, 13 March 2025

Celebrating 80 years: Cheltenham Music Festival with new music from Deborah Pritchard & Anna Semple, alongside music from the first festival

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Cheltenham Music Festival 2023 Established in 1945 in the months following the Second World War, the Cheltenham Music Festival is celebratin...
Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Make Ethics Matter: Conway Hall's annual Ethical Gala with Songhaven receiving the Ethical Award, celebrating Ukrainian students from LPAM, and solo flautist Daniel Shao

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Conway Hall Ethical Award: recipient Vivien Connacher and members of Songhaven with Conway Hall's Carmen D'Cruz Last week (6 March 2...

Power and poetry: all-Prokofiev programme from Igor Levit, Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer at Royal Festival Hall

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Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes - Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra - Southbank Centre (Photo: Pete Woodhead for the Sout...
Tuesday, 11 March 2025

Stylistic irreverence & eclecticism: Zygmund de Somogyi & Temporal Harmonies at Wigmore Hall

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Zygmund de Somogyi Composer, interdisciplinary artist and writer Zygmund de Somogyi (Zyggy) is one of eight composers on the 2025 Royal Phi...

Mozart to Mary Poppins: Nine days of masterclasses and performances, the Oxford Piano Festival

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Andrey Gugnin Nine days of masterclasses and performances by renowned pianists, the Oxford Piano Festival returns from 26 July to 3 August 2...

EMPOWER: Women Changing Music

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EMPOWER: Female Musical Icons is an evening of performances and conversation, celebrating the breadth and diversity of female music, at Kin...
Monday, 10 March 2025

A dip into festival history with the return of Thomas' Hamlet, Mozart in lighter mode, four new operas, the new Buxton Festival Orchestra: Buxton International Festival 2025

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Buxton Opera House festival time. Credit Buxton International Festival Having launched in 1979 with a production of Donizetti's Lucia di...

The disc is worth getting for the Liszt; throw in the Holmès and de Grandval and you have a winner - le vase brisé from Thomas Elwin & Lana Bode

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le vase brisé: Hahn, Augusta Holmès, Liszt, Duparc, Lili Boulanger, Sir Paulo Tosti, Clemence de Grandval, Pauline Viardot, Bellini; Thomas...
Saturday, 8 March 2025

Everyone in the group feels strongly about it: Harry Christophers introduces The Sixteen's 25th Choral Pilgrimage, Angel of Peace

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Harry Christophers & The Sixteen in rehearsal - 2024 (Photo: Johnny Millar) Harry Christophers and The Sixteen embark on their 25th Ch...
Friday, 7 March 2025

The cast were clearly having fun whilst the plot was made satisfyingly coherent: Mozart's The Magic Flute from Charles Court Opera

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Mozart: The Magic Flute - Matthew Kellett - Charles Court Opera (Photo: Bill Knight) Mozart: The Magic Flute; Matthew Kellett, Alison Lang...
Wednesday, 5 March 2025

David Butt Philip and Friends

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David Butt Philip, Alison Langer, St Paul's Opera chorus at the David Butt Philip & Friends gala in 2024 St Paul's Church (Pho...
Tuesday, 4 March 2025

In case you missed it

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  Cherubini: Médée - Lila Dufy, Joyce El-Khoury in Act One - Opéra Comique (Photo: Stefan Brion) Juliet, Jenůfa, Médée & Mary, Queen of...

Behind the Music: hear me live at the German YMCA in London

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The German YMCA in London has a lively programme of events including regular music related talks and performances, and their March programm...

The annual Swaledale Festival of Music and the Arts blazes a cultural trail for the North Yorkshire Dales

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Bringing music and the arts to the three most northerly Yorkshire Dales notably Swaledale, Wensleydale and Arkengarthdale, the Swaledale Fes...
Monday, 3 March 2025

Symphonic Bach: the St Matthew Passion in the glorious Sheldonian Theatre made notable by some strong individual performances

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The Berlin Singakademie building, designed by Carl Theodor Ottmer, 1825-1827, now Maxim Gorki Theater painting by Eduard Gaertner, 1843 Bach...

A very personal vision indeed: Mats Lidström in Bach's Cello Suites as part of Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra's Bach Mendelssohn Festival

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Title page of Anna Magdalena Bach's manuscript: Suites á Violoncello Solo senza Basso Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, Cello Suite No...
Saturday, 1 March 2025

There was no plan, it just happened: violinist Ada Witczyk on the Růžičková Composition Competition and her New Baroque disc arising out of it

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Ada Witczyk performing music from the 2023 Růžičková Composition Competition Violinist Ada Witczyk 's new album, New Baroque - Sonatas ...
Friday, 28 February 2025

Taking us on an emotional journey: Solomon's Knot in Bach's 1725 version of the St John Passion at Wigmore Hall

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St Nicholas Church, Leipzig Where Bach's St John Passion first performed Bach: St John Passion (1725); Solomon's Knot; Wigmore Hal...

Opera is Us: Exploring the transformative power of music with Anna Starushkevych's Music Will Save The World & a new film inspired by personal experience

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 "Consider the scenario where all live, organically-produced music, whether professional or amateur, suddenly vanished globally. The ab...

Now Grade II Listed, this unassuming modernist house in Aldeburgh, was home to Imogen Holst, has links to her father, & was built by architects who worked on the 1951 Festival of Britain

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9 Church Walk, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, home of Imogen Holst from 1964 to 1984 (Photo: © Historic England Archive) A relatively unassuming modern...
Wednesday, 26 February 2025

Notes of Old: Helen Charlston & Sholto Kynoch draw together a variety of composers, echoing common themes & preoccupation in music that they love

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Sholto Kynoch & Helen Charlston in rehearsal (Image from YouTube video ) Notes of Old : Mompou, Hahn, Monteverdi, Bach, Schubert, Bach a...