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Monday, 20 February 2017

Looking ahead: WNO 2017/18 - Russian themes, new Verdi, Elena Langer and a Welsh suffragette

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Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina - The Chorus of Welsh National Opera - credit Clive Barda Welsh National Opera 's 2017/18 season starts w...
Sunday, 19 February 2017

Discovering the music beneath: Janusz Wawrowski's Sequenza on Warner Classics

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Berio, Ysaye, Brustad, Bacewicz, Pendercki, Opalka, Przybylski; Janusz Wawrowski; Warner Classics Reviewed by Robert Hugill on ...
Saturday, 18 February 2017

Introduction and fugue: CD launch with RVW rarity

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Mark Bebbington & Rebeca Omordia at Schott Music Mark Bebbington's new disc of piano music by RVW on SOMM  contains something o...

First UK appearance for 15 years: conductor Peter Dijkstra talks about the Netherlands Chamber Choir

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Peter Dijkstra and Netherlands Chamber Choir ©FoppeSchut On 8 March 2017, the Netherlands Chamber Choir (Nederlands Kamerkoor) and its...
Friday, 17 February 2017

An immersive experience: Even You Song at Peterborough Cathedral

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Even You Song at Peterborough Cathedral (Photo: Benedict Johnson) Bettina Furnée, Lucy Sheerman, Cheryl Frances Hoad Even You Song ; ...

What lies beneath: welcome development plans at St George's Hanover Square

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St George's Hanover Square The last few years or so have seen a great deal of activity at St George's Church , Hanover Square, a...

Louise Alder and Gary Matthewman at the Wigmore Hall

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Louise Alder photo William Alder Soprano Louise Alder and pianist Gary Matthewman are giving a recital at the Wigmore Hall on Sunday ...
Thursday, 16 February 2017

The Food of Love: settings of the Song of Songs from Ensemble Plus Ultra

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Illustration for the 1st verse of the Song of Songs, a minstrel playing before Solomon (15th century Rothschild Mahzor) The Food of...

Pembroke College - Bliss series

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Joseph Middleton in the Old Library Pembroke College As part of Pembroke College 's Sir Arthur Bliss International Song Series which...

Looking ahead: Britten Sinfonia in 2017/18

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Britten Sinfonia - photo Harry Rankin The 2017/18 season sees the Britten Sinfonia celebrating its 25th birthday. Thomas Ades continue...
Wednesday, 15 February 2017

Pepys the musician: music by Cesare Morelli

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Cesare Morelli is not a household name. He was a 17th century Italian musician whose posthumous reputation now owes something to the fact ...

Farinelli - A Portrait: Ann Hallenberg, Chrstopher Rousset & Les Talens Lyriques

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Farinelli - A Portrait Riccardo Broschi, Geminiano Giacomelli, Nicola Porpora, Leonardo Leo, Handel; Ann Hallenberg, Les Talens Lyriqe...

A unique campus of the arts: a walk round Snape Maltings with Roger Wright

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Snape Maltings - photo Philip Vile Snape Maltings  in Suffolk has an intriguing history, built as a maltings in the 19th century it owes...
Tuesday, 14 February 2017

Looking ahead: Wigmore Hall's 2017/18 season

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Jorg Widmann - photo Marco Borggreve The Wigmore Hall 's 2017/18 season has nearly 500 concerts in it including 120 chamber recitals...

Music among friends: Klangrede

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Klangrede , Eres Holz, Johannes B Borowski, Stefan Keller; Zafraan Ensemble, Titus Engel; bastille musique Reviewed by Robert Hug...

Robert Levin to become the Academy of Ancient Music's first Hogwood Fellow

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Robert Levin photo Clive Barda The Academy of Ancient Music has created the Hogwood Fellowship in honour of the orchestra's founde...
Monday, 13 February 2017

Looking Ahead: Aurora Orchestra in 2017

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The Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon at the Proms During 2017 the Aurora Orchestra and conductor Nicholas Collon continue their two ...

Ben Gernon in Manchester, Scotland and Salzburg

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Ben Gernon and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra The young British conductor Ben Gernon (aged 27) was recently announced as becoming the p...

Queer Talk: homosexuality in Britten's Britten

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Queer Talk exhibition detail ©Britten-Pears Foundation The composer Benjamin Britten and his partner Peter Pears were not known either f...
Sunday, 12 February 2017

New Teeth4 - Bastard Assignments

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Josh Spears and Timothy Cape in Timothy Cape's Wildflower New Teeth 4 ; Bastard Assignments; Hackney Showrooms Reviewed by...