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Tuesday, 29 April 2025

New song cycles inspired by 10th-century Persian poetry, the Magdalene Laundries & Baba Yaga as storytelling in song takes centre stage at this year's Oxford International Song Festival

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Konstantin Krimmel (Photo: Guido Werner) This year's Oxford International Song Festival takes as its theme Stories in Song and from 10 ...

A genre finding its way: Maurice Greene's Jephtha reveals different English oratorio before Handel consolidate the form

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Maurice Greene: Jephtha ; Andrew Staples, Mary Bevan, Michael Mofidian, Jeremy Budd, Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn; CHANDOS Reviewed...
Monday, 28 April 2025

Sir Nicholas Kenyon to give the inaugural Purcell Lecture at Stationers Hall presented by the Musicians' Company, and the Stationers and Newspapermakers' Company

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Stationers Hall In 1683, a group of musicians and music lovers got together as the Musical Society of London and organised a St Cecilia'...

Immersive Beethoven at Conway Hall: all the major chamber works with piano from Daniel Tong, Sara Trickey and Robin Michael

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1803 portrait of Beethoven by Christian Horneman This weekend, 3 and 4 May 2025, Conway hall is having an immersive event giving us the oppo...

More than novelty value: at Conway Hall, the Zoffany Ensemble explores two substantial 19th century French works for nine instruments

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Louise Farrenc in 1835 Michael Haydn: Divertimento in G , Louise Farrenc: Nonet in E flat , George Onslow: Nonet in A minor ; Zoffany Ensemb...
Saturday, 26 April 2025

Creating a fun day out as well as broadening the mind: Jack Bazalgette on his first Cheltenham Music Festival as artistic director

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Jack Bazalgette (Photo: Ehimetalor Unuabona) Jack Bazalgette is perhaps best known as the co-founder and director of through the noise , wh...
Friday, 25 April 2025

From RVW's Sancta Civitas & Bliss' The Beatitudes to Reich's The Desert Music & Birtwistle's Earth Dances, plus 19 premieres: the BBC Proms 2025

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This years BBC Proms are the first under the stewardship of Sam Jackson, controller of BBC Radio 3 who took over the Proms this year from Da...
Wednesday, 23 April 2025

Music amongst friends: my preconcert talk at Conway Hall

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On Sunday 27 April 2025, the Zoffany Ensemble will be presenting a fascinating programme at Conway Hall for their Sunday concerts series at...

Fierce virtuosity and sheer delight: oboist Olivier Stankiewicz, soprano Lucy Crowe, violinist Maria Włoszczowska & friends in a captivating evening of Bach, Zelenka, Handel, Vivaldi

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Bach: Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen - Olivier Stankiewicz, Lucy Crowe, ensemble led by Maria Włoszczowska - Wigmore Hall (taken from live s...

Samling Academy Opera's performances of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at The Fire Station, Sunderland

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Singers from the North East are joined by Dunedin Consort on period instruments and their director John Butt for Samling Academy Opera's...
Tuesday, 22 April 2025

Planet Hugill featured in FeedSpot Top UK Classical Music Blogs and Top 60 Opera Blogs

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I am never really sure about lists of things, the Top 50 Best whatevers. However, finding out that you are in such a list is terribly seduct...

A Georgian Party Music Workshop, and Pick a Card: Ensemble Augelletti's family friendly events for Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival

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Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival runs from 23 to 25 May. Before the festival, an extra event features a Georgian Party Music ...

11 days in July: Lichfield Festival 2025

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BBC National Orchestra of Wales, cellist Senja Rummukainan & conductor Ryan Bancroft at 2024 Lichfield Festival (Photo: Tyler Whiting) F...
Sunday, 20 April 2025

Dramatic engagement: Francesco Corti directs Bach's St John Passion with the English Concert at Wigmore Hall on Good Friday

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Autograph of the first page of the Johannespassion by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach: St John Passion (1739 version); Patrick Grahl, Rachel R...
Saturday, 19 April 2025

Searching for possibilities: composer Noah Max on his four string quartets recently recorded by the Tippett Quartet on Toccata Classics

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Noah Max (Photo: Richard Ecclestone) Last month, Toccata Classics released a disc of the four string quartets by the young British composer...
Friday, 18 April 2025

Youthful impulse and power: Mozart's Requiem from National Youth Choir, Sinfonia Smith Square and Nicholas Chalmers

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The first page of Mozart's autograph score of the Requiem Mozart: Symphony No. 35 , Requiem, Bruckner, Rheinberger; Hannah Dienes-Willia...

Looking at these modern classics anew: Britten's Canticles at the Barbican with James Way, Natalie Burch & friends

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Natalie Burch, James Way and Annemarie Federle at St Mary's Parish Church, Haddington where their recording of Britten's Canticles  ...
Wednesday, 16 April 2025

Cheltenham Music Festival's highly regarded Composer Academy is returning for 2025, the festival's 80th birthday year.

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Daniel Kidane After being placed on hiatus in 2023 owing to funding issues, Cheltenham Music Festival's highly regarded Composer Academy...

This production, will undoubtedly be remembered for years to come: Massenet's Werther in Paris with Marina Viotti, Benjamin Bernheim & Marc Leroy-Calatayud conducting Les Siècles

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Massenet: Werther - Marina Viotti, Benjamin Bernheim - Théâtre des Champs Elysées (Photo: Vincent Pontet) Massenet: Werther ; Marina Viotti,...
Tuesday, 15 April 2025

A new bandoneon concerto amidst the musical delights of Christian Blackshaw's festival, Hellensmusic in an historic Herefordshire village

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Hellens Manor, Much Marcle, Herefordshire Hellensmusic is a music festival that takes place every May at Hellens Manor , St Bartholomew’s Ch...

Pegasus True Masters: masterclass with Roderick Williams as fundraiser for Pegasus Opera Mentoring Programme

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Pegasus Opera's mentoring programme with Danielle de Niese in 2024 Pegasus Opera is being joined by baritone Roderick Williams for True ...

Henning Kraggerud announced as the Irish Chamber Orchestra's new artistic partner

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Norwegian violinist and composer  Henning Kraggerud is joining the Irish Chamber Orchestra as its new artistic partner from August 2025. Kr...
Monday, 14 April 2025

Celebrating Creativity in Hospitals: Michael Stimpson's work inspired by his stay in ICU at hear of this concert for Horatio's Gardens

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A concert to thank the NHS and to raise money for Horatio's Gardens, who produce beautiful gardens at NHS spinal injury centres to aid p...

Yorkshire Calling: Ben Crick & the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra open Bradford Live for Yorkshire Day as part of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture

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The ballroom at Bradford Live A restored 1930s Art Deco building in Bradford will be reopening in August after being saved from demolition a...

Compelling and magisterial: Sunwook Kim directs Chamber Orchestra of Europe from the piano in Beethoven's third and fourth piano concertos

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Sunwook Kim & Chamber Orchestra of Europe - Barbican Centre (Photo: Ed Maitland-Smith/Barbican Centre) Anna Clyne: Stride , Beethoven: P...
Sunday, 13 April 2025

Letter from Florida: Sarasota Opera's Winter Festival

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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro - Sarasota Opera, 2025 - (Photo: Robert Millington for Sarasota Opera) Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro , Verdi: Stiff...
Saturday, 12 April 2025

An incredible feeling when you get it right; horn-player Martin Owen on performing Mozart's complete horn concertos with Manchester Camerata

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Martin Owen, Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy at the Stoller Hall (Photo; Rob Everett) When horn player Martin Owen and I met to chat...