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Monday, 19 November 2018

Samling Insititute for Young Artists

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Samling Artist Jade Moffat with mezzo soprano Ann Murray DBE. Photo © Mark Pinder Samling is a charity which, since its founding in 199...

The English Concert in Baroque concertos

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Dall'Abaco, Porpora, Marcello, Tartini, Telemann; The English Concert, Harry Bicket; Signum Classics   Reviewed by Robert Hugill ...
Sunday, 18 November 2018

An atmospheric and intriguing journey into the life of Alma Mahler

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Alma Mahler (c.1902) Art Sung: Alma Mahler ; Lorena Paz Nieto, Jon Stainsby, Elizabeth Mucha; London Song Festival at Hinde Street Met...
Saturday, 17 November 2018

Widening the audience: I chat to Christopher Glynn about his Schubert in English project

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Christopher Glynn and Roderick WIlliams recording Schubert's 'Winter Journey' Pianist and artistic director of the Ryedale F...

Britten's War Requiem at English National Opera

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Britten: War Requiem - English National Opera - (Photo Richard Hubert Smith) Britten War Requiem ; Emma Bell, David Butt Philip, Ro...
Friday, 16 November 2018

Even when he is Silent

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The Chamber Choir of London and Dominic Ellis-Peckham have another CD single out, this time Even When He Is Silent by the Norwegian compo...

Rare Tchaikovsky and Smyth: an earlier version of the piano concerto and Smyth's large-scale mass at the Barbican

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Martyn Brabbins & the BBC Symphony Orchestra (Photo BBC) Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 (first revised version, 1879) , Ethel Sm...

Endgame: György Kurtág's first opera premieres at La Scala

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György Kurtág & Samuel Beckett: Fin de partie - La Scala, Milan (Photo Walz Ruth) György Kurtág is now in his 90s, but not only is ...

Elgar, Finzi, Parry, Walton from a different angle: arrangements for brass septet

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Music for Brass Septet - Finzi, Elgar, Parry, Walton; Septura; Naxos Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 14 November 2018 Star rating: 4....
Thursday, 15 November 2018

REMA Early Music Awards at St John's Smith Square

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European Union Baroque Orchestra The wonderful European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO) has a concert at St. John's Smith Square on 3...

Highgate International Chamber Music Festival

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The Highgate International Chamber Music Festival opens this weekend, with a week of  chamber music from artists such as Alexander Sikovet...

Love & Prayer: Nadine Benjamin's solo recital debut album

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Love and Prayer Puccini, Bellini, Verdi, Mozart, Schubert; Nadine Benjamin, NB Opera Ensemble, Kamal Khan Reviewed by Robert Hugill ...
Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Chiara Skerath, Gwilym Bowen and Ida Ränzlöv are the new Associate Artists of Classical Opera and The Mozartists

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Chiara Skerath, Gwilym Bowen and Ida Ränzlöv are the new Associate Artists of Classical Opera and The Mozartists Swiss-Belgian soprano C...

Cimarosa's The Secret Marriage

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Sophia Baddeley, Robert Baddeley, Thomas King by Johan Zoffany in The Clandestine Marriage in 1769. The Neapolitan composer Domenico C...

A sense of subtext: Joe Cutler's Elsewhereness on NMC

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Elsewhereness - Joe Cutler; NMC Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 12 November 2018 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A mixed programme ...
Tuesday, 13 November 2018

Otherwordly concerns: Marlis Petersen's Anderswelt

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Anderswelt ; Marlis Petersen, Camillo Radicke; Solo Musica Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 5 October 2018 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) La...

Late genius and two sextets: Strauss, Haydn and Brahms at Conway Hall

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R.Strauss, Haydn, Brahms; Oculi Ensemble; Conway Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 11 November 2018 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) Two l...

The orchestra that talks back!

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Whilst everyone in the arts talks about the problems with the present concert format, in fact there has been very little change. True, the...
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Monday, 12 November 2018

Releasing The Prison: a project to record Ethel Smyth's last major work

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Henry Brewster from the frontispiece of Ethel Smyth's 1930 edition of his The Prison: A dialogue Dame Ethel Smyth is quite in the n...

Tchaikovsky: Notes & Letters

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Three of the City Music Foundation's (CMF) patrons, actor Simon Callow, soprano Joan Rodgers, and pianist Roger Vignoles, are presenti...