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Wednesday, 20 March 2019

Climate change, environment and new opera at Norwegian premiere

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Gisle Kverndokk (Photo Svein Finneide) Norwegian composer Gisle Kverndokk 's opera Upon this Handful of Earth premiered in New Yo...

Thrilling dynamism: Taverner's Missa Gloria tibi trinitas from Owen Rees, Contrapunctus & the Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford on Signum

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John Taverner Missa Gloria tibi trinitas ; Contrapunctus, the Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford; Signum Classics   Reviewed by...
Tuesday, 19 March 2019

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's new season: newcomers, rarities and excitement

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Thomas Dausgaard - BBC SSO (Photo BBC) Under its chief conductor Thomas Dausgaard, the BBC Scotttish Symphony Orchestra's 2019/20 se...

A chance for two top-class amateur choirs to shine: the Eaton Square Concerts' Spring season

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St Peter's Church, Eaton Square London has hundreds (perhaps thousands) of amateur choirs ranging from local community ensembles to ...

Rarities by Lalo & Milhaud in Hee-Young Lim's imaginative disc of French cello concertos on Sony

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Saint-Saens, Lalo, Milhaud, Offenbach, Massent; Hee-Young Lim, London Symphony Orchestra, Scott Yoo; Sony Classical Reviewed by Rober...
Monday, 18 March 2019

The Gardeners is coming and Robert is in focus at Conway Hall

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The Gardeners - 18 June 2019 Plans are well under way for the premiere of The Gardeners , my new chamber opera with a li...

Ancient instruments and new music: BCMG's Murmurs

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Wu Wei and the sheng (Photo Elsa Thorp) Birmingham Contemporary Music Group's (BCMG) forthcoming concert at the CBSO Centre in Birmi...

Not heard since its 1956 premiere: Eugene Bozza's Le chant de la mine, with its hints of Florent Schmitt and Honegger, makes a fascinating revival

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Eugene Bozza Le chant de la mine ; Orchestre Valentiana, Nicolas Bucher; IndeSens Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 13 March 2019 Star ...

Lunchbreak Opera announces its ambitious plans for the 2019/20 season

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Lunchbreak Opera from Lunchbreak Opera on Vimeo . Lunchbreak Opera is a relatively new company whose mission is to persuade those who...
Sunday, 17 March 2019

One last show: Bury Court Opera's final performance ever presented Britten's The Turn of the Screw in a production vividly conceived to highlight the venue's distinctive qualities

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Britten: The Turn of the Screw - Andrew Dickinson, Hugh Hetherington - Bury Court Opera (Photo Robert Workman ) Britten The Turn of t...
Saturday, 16 March 2019

Almost music theatre: Dominick Argento and Schumann song cycles about Virginia Woolf and Mary, Queen of Scots, expanded with dramatic texts from Sarah Connolly at Wigmore Hall

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Virginia Woolf and Ethel Smyth Zemlinsky, Schumann, Argento; Sarah Connolly, Julius Drake, Emily Berrington; Wigmore Hall Reviewed ...

Emotional soundscapes: the music of young Australian composer Brendon John Warner on his debut album 'La fonte'

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The young Sydney-based composer Brendon John Warner was a name entirely new to me until I was sent his recent album La fonte .  Warner ...
Friday, 15 March 2019

Melting, Shifting, Liquid World

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Hollie Harding & Trinity Laban - Melting, Shifting, Liquid World from Trinity Laban on Vimeo . Tomorrow (Saturday 16 March 2019) ...

A strong cast in a highly engaging revival of Mozart's The Magic Flute from Simon McBurney, ENO & Complicité

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ENO The Magic Flute 2019, Julia Bauer and Rupert Charlesworth, © Donald Cooper Mozart The Magic Flute ; Lucy Crowe, Rupert Charleswor...
Thursday, 14 March 2019

The past filtered through the present: Jessica Cottis conducts Britten, Ravel & Stravinsky

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Conductor Jessica Cottis, whom I interviewed recently , makes her debut with the English Chamber Orchestra at Cadogan Hall on Saturday 16 ...

Magnificent original: Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake restored in a superb performance from Vladimir Jurowski on Pentatone

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Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (1877 version); State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia "Evgeny Svetlanov", Vladimir Jurowski; Pent...
Wednesday, 13 March 2019

Music by Grażyna Bacewicz from the Northern Chamber Orchestra

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Grażyna Bacewicz Music by one of Poland's foremost 20th century composers will be part of the Northern Chamber Orchestra's lates...

Intimate conversations: the young Jubilee Quartet in three quartets spanning 20 years of Haydn's maturity

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Haydn quartets; Jubilee Quartet; Rubicon Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 22 February 2019 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) Three quartets s...
Tuesday, 12 March 2019

Brilliant revival of Peter Konwitschny's remarkably focused production of Halévy's 'La Juive' in Antwerp

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Halévy: La Juive - Roy Cornelius Smith, Corinne Winters - Opera Vlaanderen (Photo Annemie Augustijns) Fromental Halévy: La Juive ; Co...
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Monday, 11 March 2019

Not yet down and dirty: English Touring Opera rising to the challenge of Verdi's Macbeth

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Verdi: Macbeth - English Touring Opera (Photo Richard Hubert Smith) Verdi Macbeth ; Grant Doyle, Madeleine Pierard, Amar Muchhala, And...