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Thursday, 23 March 2017

Guto Puw's Welsh-language opera premieres at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival

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Guto Puw and Gwyneth Glyn The highlight of this year's Vale of Glamorgan Festival (19-26 May 2017) must be Music Theatre Wales ...
Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Gallicantus: Queen Mary's Big Belly

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Philip von Wilder, William Mundy, Christopher Tye, Thomas Tallis, John Sheppard; Galicantus; Signum Classics Reviewed by Robert H...

Snappy Operas to get children learning and performing opera

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Mahogany Opera Group is creating ten new ten-minute operas with some of the UK most exciting writers and composers. These short pieces wil...

New commissions, new collaborations & more: Garsington Opera's season grows

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Garsington Opera inside the auditorium (Photo Clive Barda) Garsington Opera is growing, this year there are four operas not three, the ...
Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Ten days to go

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There is still time to support our crowdfunding for the new CD of my songs, Quickening: Songs to texts by English and Welsh poets .  So fa...

A problem no more: William Relton's production of Handel's Faramondo at the London Handel Festival

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Kieran Rayner, Harriet Eyley - Handel: Faramondo - London Handel Festival (Photo Chris Christodoulou) Handel Faramondo ; Ida Räntzlöv...

Handel's Theodora in Manchester

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Whilst the London Handel Festival gets into full swing this week, Manchester has its own Handel performances to look forward to as the Roy...

16 choirs from 11 countries - the third London International A Cappella Choral Competition

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The third London International A Cappella Choral Competition at St John's Smith Square runs from 26 June to 1 July 2017, with a total ...
Monday, 20 March 2017

Looking Ahead: Oxford Phillharmonic's Oxford Piano Festival

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The Oxford Piano Festival is a regular summer event presented by the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra , artistic director Marios Papadopoulos...

Thrilling moments from a youthful cast in Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila

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Samson et Dalila at the Paris Opéra, 1892: Camille Saint-Saens Samson et Dalila ; Claudia Huckle, Aaron Cawley, Michel de Souza, Mich...

Surrender to the madness: Patricia Petibon and Susan Manoff at Wigmore Hall

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Patricia Petibon & Susan Manoff Barber, Britten, Bacri, de Falla, Rodrigo, Obradors, Villa-Lobos, Bridge Poulenc, Collet, Semos ...
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Sunday, 19 March 2017

Richly vibrant & strongly characterful: songs by Buxton Orr from Nicky Spence & Iain Burnside

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Buxton Orr songs; Nicky Spence, Iain Burnside, Jordan Black, Nikita Naumov, members of the Edinburgh Quartet Reviewed by Robert H...
Saturday, 18 March 2017

Viola Dolorosa: contemporary music for viola and piano

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Peter Seabourne Pieta , Britten Elegy , Lachrymae ; Georg Hamman, Akari Komiya; Sheva Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Mar 14 2017 ...

Virtuoso: I chat to recorder player Jill Kemp about her disc of new music

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Jill Kemp (Photo Kate Mount) Recorder player Jill Kemp 's new disc Aztec Dances is programme of contemporary music recorded with pi...
Friday, 17 March 2017

Beyond the music: a further look at the poetry of Ivor Gurney

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Ivor Gurney For this article I continue looking at the poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, four of whose poems are part of my song cycle Fou...

Slow burn: Sondra Radvanovsky's London recital debut pays dividends in the end

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Anthony Manoli & Sondra Radvanovsky at Rosenblatt Recitals at Cadogan Hall (photo Jonathan Rose) Giacomelli, Bellini, Richard Str...

Looking ahead: Incontri in Terra di Siena

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Pianist Alessio Bax is the new artistic director of the festival Incontri in Terra di Siena. Based at the Villa La Foce and the nearby me...

Bampton Classical Opera Young Singers’ Competition 2017

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Anna Starushkevych, winner of the first Bampton Classical Opera Young Singers' Competition in 2013 Applications opened earlier this ...
Thursday, 16 March 2017

Nancy Cunard invites: ENO's Partenope with Sarah Tynan

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ENO - Handel: Partenope - Patricia Bardon, Matthew Durkan, Stephanie Windsor-Lewis, Sarah Tyana  (Photo Donald Cooper) Handel Parte...

Sacred showcase: Stile Antico in Giaches de Wert

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Giaches de Wert motets; Stile Antico; Harmonia Mundi Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Mar 02 2017 Star rating: 4.0 Better known ...