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Saturday, 14 December 2019

Rule-breaking music that inspires you and empowers you: Tamsin Waley-Cohen and James Baillieu on CPE Bach's sonatas for violin and keyboard.

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Tamsin Waley-Cohen & James Baillieu recording CPE Bach at Snape Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen and pianist James Baillieu have ju...
Friday, 13 December 2019

A Place to Call Home: Sing for Shelter

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The young composer Alex Woolf (the premiere of whose Requiem we noted in 2018) has created a new song A Place to Call Home as part of t...

Debut with BBC Now, the London premiere of Judith Weir's Oboe Concerto - Gergely Madaras' week

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Gergely Madaras (Photo Marco Borggreve) This is a busy week for conductor Gergely Madaras , as on Tuesday (10 December 2019) he made his...

A bleakly haunted journey: Alice Coote and Julius Drake in Schubert's Winterreise at Wigmore Hall

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Franz Schubert: Winterreise - autograph manuscript courtesy of The Morgan Library & Museum Schubert Winterreise ; Alice Coote, Jul...
Thursday, 12 December 2019

Migrating Sounds: Rebecca Saunders, Richard Causton, Vito Žuraj, and Shiori Usui at BCMG

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Rebecca Saunders On Sunday (15 December 2019) the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) will be presenting a pair of new works by R...

Christmas CD Round up

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This year's Christmas round-up has carols old and new, alongside music from the Spanish golden age, Bach's Christmas Oratorio , a ...
Wednesday, 11 December 2019

O Magnum Mysterium: Christmas music old and new from Londinium

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If you enjoy concerts which celebrate Christmas but want to avoid the standard carols and the usual Christmas repertoire, then Friday'...

Reviving Ethel Smyth's dance dream: Fete Galante from Restrospect Opera

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Ethel Smyth Fete Galante , Liza Lehmann The Happy Prince ; Charmian Bedford, Carolyn Dobbin, Felix Kemp, Simon Wallfisch, Mark Milhofer,...
Tuesday, 10 December 2019

Spring at Conway Hall: pre-concert talks, Beethoven, premieres and more at the Sunday concert series

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The Spring 2020 Sunday concert series at Conway Hall has been launched, with an impressive array of concerts from 12 January to 7 June 202...

In the salon of Mlle de Guise: Solomon's Knot take us to 17th century France with a pair of Christmas pastorals by Marc-Antoine Charpentier

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Solmon's Knot (Photo Alexander Barnes / Apple and Biscuit.) Marc-Antoine Charpentier In nativitatem Domini canticum H.416 and Pas...

From Dvorak to Reich: the Arcis Saxophone Quartet in American Dreams at Conway Hall

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Arcis Saxophone Quartet (Jure Knez, Claus Hierluksch, Richarda Fuss, Edoardo Zotti) Photo Harald Hoffmann American Dreams - Reich, ...
Monday, 9 December 2019

Messiah round up

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The Handel Festival at The Crystal Palace , 1857 As ever, Handel's Messiah seems to be a Christmas essential for most concert hall ...

Oh that all opera bouffe could be delivered with such panache: Offenbach's La Belle Hélène from New Sussex Opera

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Offenbach: La belle Helene - Catherine Backhouse, Anthony Flaum - New Sussex Opera Photo Robert Knights Offenbach La Belle Hélène ; H...
Saturday, 7 December 2019

Creating a counter-factual history of brass chamber music: I chat to Simon Cox & Matthew Knight from the brass-septet Septura

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Septura I first became aware of the brass septet, Septura , when noting their 2017/18 concert series Kleptomania at St John's Smith...
Friday, 6 December 2019

2020 here we come: Sara Mohr-Pietsch's first programme for Dartington Music Summer School and Festival

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A queue outside Dartington Hall 2 c Aubrey Simpson The new artistic director of Dartington Music Summer School and Festival is Sara Mohr...

Some where for the weekend: chamber music at the the quiestest place under the sun - Clun Valley Music

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Clun Valley Music was founded by viola player Luba Tunnicliffe and cellist Richard Tunnicliffe to bring high-quality performances of class...
Thursday, 5 December 2019

New song cycle, new partnership: Marta Fontanals-Simmons and Christopher Glynn take Oxford Lieder to Birmingham

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Marta Fontanals-Simmons & Christopher Glynn The concert tomorrow, 6 December 2019, at The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University ...

Weber's Der Freischütz in a fine new modern recording with Lise Davidsen as Agathe

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Weber Der Freischütz ; Lise Davidsen, Andreas Schager, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Marek Janowski; Pentatone Reviewed by Robert Hugil...
Wednesday, 4 December 2019

Highlights and festival firsts: Aldeburgh Festival 2020 - four artists in residence, a first opera, the War Requiem at Snape and more

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Josephine Baker, whose songs are celebrated at the festival by artist-in-residence Julia Bullock The 2020 Aldeburgh Festival features fo...

Immersive Beethoven - The Little Orchestra begins its 2019/2020 season

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The Little Orchestra - Nicholas Little The Little Orchestra begins its 2019/20 season this week with a pair of performances of Beethoven...

Westminster Cathedral Choir at Choral at Cadogan

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Westminster Cathedral Choir O magnum mysterium - songs of the Incarnation ; Westminster Cathedral Choir, Peter Stevens; Cadogan Hall ...
Tuesday, 3 December 2019

A Riot at Kings Place: Riot Ensemble's RE[NEW]

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Aaron Holloway-Nahum & The Riot Ensemble in Elliott Carter's Double Concerto at LSO St Lukes (Photo Ben Clube) The Riot Ensembl...

The Oxford connection: Elgar's Dream of Gerontius based on the writings of the recently canonised John Henry Newman

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John Henry Newman in May 1890 John Henry Newman was canonised by Pope Francis on 13 October 2019. An important, and controversial, figur...

Serenata Mexicana: engaging new music from Mexico

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Serenata Mexicana - Alejandro Basulto, Arturo Marquez; Morgan Szymanski, Jamie MacDougall, Gabriella Dall'Olio, Shakespeare Sinfoni...
Monday, 2 December 2019

Jennifer Pike and Martin Roscoe at Stoller Hall

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Jennifer Pike Violinist Jennifer Pike will be in recital at Chetham's School of Music's Stoller Hall in Manchester on Tuesday 3 ...

Leaving us wanting more: Jamie Barton has the audience on the palm of her hand in this finely sung recital at Wigmore Hall

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Jamie Barton (Photo Bree Anne Clowdus) Warren, Boulanger, Beach, Haydn, Larsen, Ravel, Duparc, Strauss; Jamie Barton, Kathleen Kelley;...