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Saturday, 16 November 2019

The City Music Foundation, historic Czech chamber music recordings and music by women composers: I chat to viola player Rosalind Ventris

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Rosalind Ventris The viola player Rosalind Ventris is a regular visitor to this blog, we caught her at Conway Hall in January 2019 pl...
Friday, 15 November 2019

80th birthday of Uruguayan pianist Dinorah Varsi

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Dinorah Varsi (Photo Werner Bethsold) Today (15 November 2019) would have been the Uruguayan pianist Dinorah Varsi' s 80th birthday....

Hector Berlioz - the Musical Outsider

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Berlioz when a student at the Villa Medici in Rome in 1832 The Musical Outsider - Hector Berlioz; Nadine Benjamin, Michael Bell, Nige...
Thursday, 14 November 2019

Barbara Strozzi: Virtuosa of Venice - Fieri Consort

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Barbara Strozzi Virtuosa of Venice ; Fieri Consort; Fieri Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 5 November 2019 Star rating: 3.5 (...

Buddhist Dance Drama at the British Library

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Mahajanaka Dance Drama - UK Tour November 2019 from Sebastian Reynolds on Vimeo . Neon Dance is bringing a new multi-disciplinary mus...
Wednesday, 13 November 2019

Septet version of Richard Strauss' Metamorphosen: Spotlight on the Oculi Ensemble.

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In 1990 a short score of Richard Strauss' Metamorphosen was discovered in Switzerland, which suggested that Strauss had originally th...

Celebrating 70 years at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

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Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff Carlo Rizzi conducts the orchestra of Welsh National Opera on Friday 15 November 2019 to...
Tuesday, 12 November 2019

Strong connections: Sally Beamish on her 60th anniversary piece for the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, & her personal links to the orchestra

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Sally Beamish (Photo Ashley Coombes) Composer Sally Beamish is currently the composer-in-residence with the Academy of St Martin in the...

From Darkness Into Light: Antoine Brumel's Lamentations recorded complete by Musica Secreta

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Antoine Brumel Lamentations of Jeremiah , Josquin, Moro, Compere; Musica Secreta; Obsidian Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 12 November...

From Eugene O'Neill play to American folk opera: I chat to composer Edward Thomas about his opera 'Anna Christie'

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Edward Thomas The American composer Edward Thomas has worked in a wide variety of genres, jazz, theatre, commercial, concert music and ...
Monday, 11 November 2019

Gems and discoveries: Piano Quartets from the Rossetti Ensemble at Conway Hall

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The Rossetti Ensemble (Photo Robert Piwko) Mozart, Debussy, Bridge, Mahler, Schumann; Rossetti Ensemble; Conway Hall Reviewed by Ro...

Come into the Garden - Samling Artist Showcase 2019 at Wigmore Hall

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Samling Artist Showcase - Come into the Garden ; Claire Lees, Anna Stéphany, Nicky Spence, Dominic Sedgwick, Joseph Middleton, Somi Kim,...
Saturday, 9 November 2019

Bringing to the community something which it would not otherwise see: I chat to festival director Anthony Wilkinson about the Wimbledon International Music Festival

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Hugo Ticciati and O/Modernt who make a number of appearances at this years Wimbledon International Music Festival The Wimbledon Interna...
Friday, 8 November 2019

Engagingly youthful: Mozart's Cosi fan tutte from Ian Page and the Mozartists

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Playbill of the first performance of Cosi fan Tutte at the Burgtheater, Vienna, 26 January 1790 Mozart Cosi fan tutte ; Ana Maria Labi...
Thursday, 7 November 2019

Leonardo the opera: Alex Mills' latest work debuts at the Victoria and Albert Museum

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As 2019 is the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, the Renaissance polymath is everywhere. Alex Mills, whose imaginative o...

Do not go gentle - the Chamber Choir of London in Dorchester, the Hague & London

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The Chamber Choir of London and conductor Dominic Ellis-Peckham will be commemorating Remembrance Sunday with a programme, Do not go gentl...
Wednesday, 6 November 2019

The Lobster with live music

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The Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos is best known for his film The Favourite , but his early catalogue includes the intriguing The Lobster...

Beethoven Transformed: volume 1 of Boxwood & Brass' new project

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Beethoven arr. Czerny Septet , Beethoven Sextet , Boxwood & Brass; Resonus Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 5 November 2019 Star r...
Tuesday, 5 November 2019

ORA's Christmas Gift!

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ORA Singers, Suzi Digby (Photo Nick Rutter) ORA Singers will be supporting 12 new composers this Christmas, offering them a free recordi...

UK premiere of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Cello Concertino in Manchester

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Dmitri Shostakovich & Mieczyslaw Weinberg together in Moscow I recently chatted to cellist Raphael Wallfisch about his project to r...
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