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Monday, 17 August 2020

A Life On-Line: Jam today, and full of beans

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I Fagiolini This week has been one of on-line festivals, with Voces8's Live from London continuing on Saturdays, and the on-line JAM on ...
Saturday, 15 August 2020

Co-founder Jonathan Darbourne introduces The Vache Baroque Festival's debut staging of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with Katie Bray as Dido

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The Vache With current restrictions encouraging the popularity of out-door performance, it is no surprise to find a new festival appearing. ...
Friday, 14 August 2020

Words and line: Stuart Jackson and Jocelyn Freeman's fine recital disc, Flax and Fire, moves from Purcell to Britten, via Liszt, Wolf and Schumann

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Flax and Fire , songs by Britten, Wolf, Liszt, Schumann, Browne; Stuart Jackson, Benjamin Britten; Orchid Classics Reviewed by Robert H...

Switched On: Opera North's programme of out-door events and digital projects

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Matthew Robins with The Little Match Girl designed for Opera North in 2012 Opera North has announced a programme of out-door events and dig...

I give you the end of a golden string

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 In 2018 the vocal ensemble Sansara, artistic director Tom Herring, performed Chris Williams' setting of a text by William Blake at the...

Premiere of Stephen McNeff and Aoife Mannix's new opera, Beyond the Garden, in Slovenia

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Amazingly, a new British opera will receive its stage premiere this September, an event to be celebrated at the best of times and particular...
Thursday, 13 August 2020

Live opera returns to Northern Irelands with The Festival of Voice

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Festival of Voice finalists, Belfast 2020 Live opera is returning to Northern Ireland this August, when Northern Ireland Opera brings The Fe...

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra announces Autumn season in Dorset and on-line

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Shirley Thompson and BSO Resound The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has announced plans for 12 socially distanced performances from the Ligh...
Wednesday, 12 August 2020

Benjamin Grosvenor, Hyeyoon Park, Raja Halder launch the Bromley and Beckenham International Music Festival

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Church of St Peter and St Paul, Bromley The collapse of live performance and the lack of opportunities for artists has made some performers ...

Born in Cyprus, trained in London, the name Kemal Belevi is perhaps not well known but this disc from Duo Tandem is full of delightfully evocative pieces

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Kemal Belevi Guitar duos ; Duo Tandem; NAxos Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 12 August 2020 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) Imaginatively wri...
Tuesday, 11 August 2020

Calling all young composers: National Youth Choir of Great Britain's Young Composers Scheme 2021

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The National Youth Choirs of Great Britain (NYCGB) is again looking for young composers for its Young Composers Scheme 2021. Four composers ...

On disc at last: Ethel Smyth's late masterwork, The Prison, receives its premiere recording in a fine performance from American forces

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Ethel Smyth The Prison ; Dashon Burton, Sarah Brailey, Experiential Chorus and Orchestra, James Blachly; Chandos Reviewed by Robert Hug...

Come on outside, the weather's lovely: with restrictions still in place, performers are taking music outside to re-connect with audiences.

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The Orchard Tea Garden in Grantchester venue for concerts by Eboracum Baroque With the advent of the Summer weather and lockdown restriction...
Monday, 10 August 2020

Outdoor engagement and energy: the Corran Quartet in Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven in an Islington courtyard

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The Corran Quartet live in Islington Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven; Corran Quartet Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 9 August 2020 In an enter...

The close of an amazing season, and a farewell: the last Opera Holland Park of 2020

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Opera Holland Park - the final concert in the 2020 season (Photo Ali Wright) And so Opera Holland Park's enterprising 2020 season came t...
Sunday, 9 August 2020

A Life On-Line: Elektra from Salzburg, Alceste from Munich, Russian song from Thomas Humphreys

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Richard Strauss: Elektra - Ausrine Stundyte - Salzburg Festival (Photo Bernd Uhlig) Having seen the Italian version of Gluck's Alceste ...
Saturday, 8 August 2020

2000 years of history: guitarist Xuefei Yang on exploring the music of her homeland on her new disc Sketches of China, on DECCA

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Xuefei Yang The guitarist Xuefei Yang has a new disc out, Sketches of China which has a digital release on Decca this month. This not sta...
Friday, 7 August 2020

Sing Gently: Eric Whitacre's latest Virtual Choir premiere

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Eric Whitacre Eric Whitacre Sing Gently ; Virtual Choir, Sam GLicklich, Eric Whitacre; YouTube Guest review by Jill Barlow on 7 Augus...
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Engaging dexterity: Bach's English Suites from the young Italian harpsichordist Paolo Zanzu

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Bach English Suites ; Paolo Zanzu; Musica Ficta Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 7 August 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Using a modern ...
Thursday, 6 August 2020

these bones, this flesh, this skin: the first of the Scottish Ensemble's Solo Collaborations mixes music, video and dance

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João Castro in Joan Clevillé & Martin Suckling's these bones, this flesh, this skin The Scottish Ensemble is launching a series of S...