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Thursday, 6 August 2015

Somewhere for the weekend - Presteigne Festival

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The Presteigne Festival is now in its 33rd year. Based in Presteigne / Gwyl Llanandras in Radnorshire in the Welsh Marches, the festival...

Il Segreto di Susanna

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Wolf-Ferrari Il Segreto di Susanna ; Judith Howarth, Angel Odena, Oviedo Filarmonia, Friedrich Haider; PhilArtis Vienna ...
Wednesday, 5 August 2015

From Wales to Patagonia - the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in 2015/16

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BBC National Orchestra of Wales photo credit BBC The BBC National Orchestra of Wales will be embarking on one of its most ambitious to...

Monteverdi's L'Orfeo at the Proms

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Monterverdi L'Orfeo at the Proms, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Mariana Flores, Francesca Aspromonte photo credit BBC/Chris Christodoulo...
Tuesday, 4 August 2015

From Babbage's Difference Engine to all of Mozart's piano concertos - the Aurora Orchestra in 2015 / 2016

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The London Science Museum 's difference engine, the first one actually built from Babbage's design. Inspiration for Barry Guy'...

Dazzling technique, bags of charm - Songs of Love, War and Melancholy

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Jacques-Francois Gallay operatic fantasies; Anneke Scott, Lucy Crowe, Stephen Devine; Resonus Classics Reviewed b...
Monday, 3 August 2015

Vividly engaging solo cantatas from Anna Prohaska and Arcangelo

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Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo at an earlier concert at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Photo credit Andrea Liu Lachrimae - John Dowla...
Sunday, 2 August 2015

Basel Symphony Orchestra brings a whiff of Paris to UK and Ireland.

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Basel Symphony Orchestra and Dennis Russell Davies photo Benno_Hunziker The Basel Symphony Orchestra under its Principal Conductor, De...
Saturday, 1 August 2015

Handel's Serse from Longborough's young artists

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Jake Arditti, with Jon Stainsby & Lucinda Stuart Grant in the background Handel's Serse   photo Robert Workman Handel Se...
Friday, 31 July 2015

160 young musicians take to the road again this summer

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The National Youth Orchestra (NYO) of Great Britain is embarking on an ambitious tour this August when, conducted by Sir Mark Elder, they ...

At the Bristol Proms

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Håkon and Mari Samuelsen at the Bristol Proms photo Jon Rowley Bristol Proms; Håkon and Mari Samuelsen, Alison Balsom; Bristol Old...
Thursday, 30 July 2015

Priceless Classics

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The Halle orchestra is aiming to attract new and wider audiences with Priceless Classics its first ever 'pay what you like' conc...

Wolf-Ferrari Violin Concerto

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Wolf Ferrari Violin Concerto ; Benjamin Schmid, Oviedo Filarmonia, Friedrich Haider; Farao Classics Reviewed by Robert...
Wednesday, 29 July 2015

Edington Festival celebrates 60 years

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Edington Priory Church The Edington Music Festival celebrates with its 60th this year. Since the first festival in 1956, during the last...

Lakme - Christine Collins Young Artists performance

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Fflur Wyn, Robert Murray - Lakme - Opera Holland Park - photo Robert Workman Leo Delibes Lakme ; Fflur Wyn, Robert Murray, Frederi...
Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Inspired by Bach

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Johannes Brahms, Max Reger, Johann Sebastian Bach, Zoltan Kodaly, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes X. Schachter, Albrecht Gursching; Ju...

Somewhere for the weekend: Music in the medieval hill towns of Provence

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This very much comes into the 'I wish' category! From 1 to 15 August 2015 Musique Cordiale runs in the hills between Nice and Aix...

Alice is in good health and living on the Yucca Lawn

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Opera Holland Park - 2014,  photo credit Alex Brenner Will Todd Alice's Adventures in ...
Monday, 27 July 2015

Merging opera, theatre and dance

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Created in 2011 by the young composer and conductor Leo Geyer , Constella Ballet and Orchestra has in recent years produced a series of s...

Flourish -- Opera Competition Up Close

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Flourish , OperaUpClose's opera competition returns this year encouraging composers to write small scale works suitable for the comp...