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Saturday 27 April 2024
Fear no more: Brindley Sherratt on releasing his first recital disc
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Brindley Sherratt (Photo: Gerard Collett) I first chatted with bass Brindley Sherratt in early 2020 about a fundraising gala he was organis...
Friday 26 April 2024
David Pickard says farewell to the BBC Proms with 90 concerts across the UK including Bizet's Carmen, Julius Eastman's Symphony No. 2, Suk's Asrael Symphony and much more
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So, the BBC Proms are on us again. The 2024 festival runs from 19 July to 14 September 2024 with 73 concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and 17...
Named for the 1996 Pride party on Clapham Common, Omnibus Theatre's 96 Festival is back for its ninth year and we're presenting 'Out of the Shadows' there
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In 1996, the Pride festival took place on Clapham Common and attracted 250,000 to party on the Common. In celebration of this, Omnibus Theat...
Thursday 25 April 2024
A German in Venice - Schütz alongside music he could have heard in Venice, a wonderfully life-affirming disc
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Schütz: A German in Venice - Schütz, Monteverdi, Rossi, Grandi, Cavalli, Sances; David de Winter, The Brook Street Band, FHR; Reviewed 24 A...
Wednesday 24 April 2024
Summer at Snape, Britten Pears Arts' series of events at Snape returns for 2024
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Summer at Snape, Britten Pears Arts' series of events at Snape returns for 2024 with 50 events from 26 July to 31 August. Visiting orch...
Schoenberg: Exploring New Worlds - Lewes Chamber Music Festival 2024
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The 13th Lewes Chamber Music Festival takes place from 6 to 8 June 2024 with artistic director Beatrice Philips bringing together 18 of toda...
Enriching, uplifting, entertaining & inclusive: Paradox Orchestra to perform at Sheffield Cathedral in support of the Archer Project
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The Paradox Orchestra (Photo: Elizabeth Brown) The Yorkshire-based Paradox Orchestra, whose founder Michael Sluman I chatted to recently [se...
Tuesday 23 April 2024
Disruptors: BBC Young Musician Keyboard Category Final winner Ethan Loch joins Manchester Camerata for music by Beethoven and local composer Carmel Smickersgill
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Ethan Loch at the BBC Young Musician 2022 Final (Photo: BBC) For their next performance in Manchester, the Manchester Camerata is changing t...
Attention must be paid: the Engegård Quartet at Conway Hall in Mozart, Bartok, Maja Ratkje, and Fanny Mendelssohn
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Fanny Hensel (Mendelssohn) in 1842 Mozart, Bartok, Maja Ratkje, Fanny Mendelssohn; Engegård Quartet; Conway Hall Reviewed 21 April 2024 Play...
Monday 22 April 2024
Holst 150, complete Shostakovich quartets, Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer: Lichfield Festival 2024
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The Hub at St Mary's - Brodsky Quartet at Lichfield Festival, July 2023 (Photo: Tyler Whiting) The Lichfield Festival returns for ten da...
The Celestial Stranger: new song cycle inspired by Thomas Traherne's recently discovered manuscript
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Joana Carneiro & Gavan Ring Thomas Traherne was a Herefordshire clergyman who died in 1674 aged 38. Known now as a poet to equal his gre...
Opera as it ought to be: Mozart's Don Giovanni from Hurn Court Opera
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Mozart: Don Giovanni - Hurn Court Opera (Photo: Patrick Frost, BlackStar Pictures) Mozart: Don Giovanni : Sam Young, Samuel Lom, Lizzie Ryde...
Saturday 20 April 2024
A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
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Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024 at Howard Assembly Room Composers & Poets Forum Showcase: A Leeds Songbook; Leeds Lieder Festival at Le...
A day at Leeds Lieder Festival: Fauré, Boulanger, Mahler and more
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Gabriel Fauré by John Singer Sargent, 1889 Lecture recital : Gabriel Fauré and his mélodies; Graham Johnson, Sarah Fox, Florian Störtz; Leed...
Thursday 18 April 2024
Engaging the audience: James Newby and Joseph Middleton in a folk-inspired programme at a cool Leeds café/bar
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Leeds Lieder 2024 - Joseph Middleton, James Newby - Through the Noise at Hyde Park Book Club Matyas Seiber, John Jacob Niles, Thomas Traill,...
Wednesday 17 April 2024
Southbank Centre's new season: Schoenberg's 150th, the OAE in Bruckner, Joyce Didonato in Berlioz, The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim
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Igor Levit (Photo: Felix Broede ) The Southbank Centre has announced its Autumn/Winter programme for 2024/25 which includes a five-day Openi...
For David, on his birthday: Ben Vonberg-Clark & Nigel Foster in a taster for Out of the Shadows at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham
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In June, we are presenting Out of the Shadows at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham as part of 96 Festival , its celebration of queerness and theatr...
A City Full of Stories: Anna Phillips on her work with Academy of St Martin in the Fields' SoundWalk
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Illustrations of SoundWalk by Ruby Wright Anna Phillips is a harpist who is currently studying for a Master’s degree at the Royal Academy of...
Tuesday 16 April 2024
Das Jahr: OAE commissions four women composers to respond to Fanny Hensel's piano cycle
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'April' from the manuscript of Fanny Hensel's Das Jahr (illustration by Wilhelm Hensel) Though we might wish it otherwise, work...
A Spring and Summer of new opera: Tête à Tête's plans for 2024
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Tête à Tête is not just planning its Summer opera festival in London but is creating a whole Spring and Summer of opera. In May, the company...
The sound of an image: recent chamber music by New York City-based, Puerto Rican-born composer Gabriel Vicéns
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Mural: chamber music by Gabriel Vicéns; Stradivarius Reviewed 15 April 2024 At times fierce and concentrated, Gabriel Vicéns music can evok...
Monday 15 April 2024
Bloom: Bill Laurance and The Untold Orchestra, from Snarky Puppy to music-making with 18-piece string orchestra. My spotlight:
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Pianist/composer Bill Laurance is perhaps best known as a member of the band Snarky Puppy, but he recently joined forces with Manchester-ba...
From the Homeland: Islington Festival of Music and Art
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Islington Festival (Photo: Marc Gascoigne) Islington Festival of Music and Art is returning with fourteen events across nine venues in and ...
Energy, discipline, control and sheer love of music-making: National Youth Orchestra and National Youth Brass Band in Gavin Higgins, Dani Howard, Prokofiev, Julius Eastman and more
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National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Jessica Cottis Catalyst : Coleridge-Taylor, Julius Eastman, Gavin Higgins, Dani Howard, Prokofiev...
Saturday 13 April 2024
No boundaries or rules: Yorkshire-based Paradox Orchestra is reinventing the orchestral concert whether it be bringing a string orchestral sound to Pink Floyd fans or disco to music festivals
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The Paradox Orchestra - Fifty Years of Pink Floyd - Leeds Minster The Paradox Orchestra is a relatively new professional ensemble based in ...
Friday 12 April 2024
Turkey's leading orchestra, the German national youth orchestra plus ensembles from Tokyo, Prague, Vienna, Buenos Aires: 2024/25 Zurich International Orchestra Series at Cadogan Hall
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Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra The 2024/25 Zurich International Orchestra Series at Cadogan Hall has recently been announced and as...
Full of good things: Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort in John Dowland, a new Cassandra Miller concerto and much else besides
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John Dowland: Lachrimae, or Seaven Tears - Sean Shibe, The Dunedin Consort Milton Court Concert Hall Rowallan Manuscript , Straloch Manuscr...
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