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Tuesday, 20 April 2021

Flight at the museum: Seattle Opera's new film imaginatively re-locates Jonathan Dove's opera

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Jonathan Dove: Flight - Damien Geter, Randall Scotting - Seattle Opera (Photo Philip Newton) Jonathan Dove Flight ; Randall Scotting, Sh...
Monday, 19 April 2021

Edinburgh innovations: the 2021 festival will involve three new temporary outdoor pavilions and streamed performances

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Edinburgh University Old College Quad Like most other Summer festivals, the Edinburgh International Festival was cancelled last year, but fo...

A ray of hope: hcmf// and Irtijal's Istimrar commissions

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The last year has been devastating in Lebanon, with the August 2020 explosion in Beirut on top of everything else happening at the moment, a...

Fantasie Nègre - The Piano Music of Florence Price

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Fantasie Nègre: The Piano Music of Florence Price ; Samantha Ege; Lorelt Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 16 April 2021 Star rating: 4...
Sunday, 18 April 2021

A Life On-Line: rare Vaughan Williams, unknown Venetians, Welsh language opera, vertical harpsichords

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  Academy of Ancient Music at West Road Concert Hall (Photo Academy of Ancient Music) This week we moved from relatively unknown 20th centur...

New Beginnings indeed: the Royal Northern Sinfonia and its principal conductor designate, Dinis Sousa, launch Sage Gateshead's new live season

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Berlioz: Les nuits d'été - Dame Sarah Connolly, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Dinis Sousa at Sage Gateshead (photo taken from live-stream)...
Saturday, 17 April 2021

When 2020 forced the cancellation of the first Riga Jurmala Academy in Latvia, it moved its programme of masterclasses on-line: I find out more from director Toms Ostrovskis

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Toms Ostrovskis and student during Riga Jurmala Academy masterclass with Leif Ove Andsnes (Photo Reinis Oliņš) When the pandemic cancelled t...
Friday, 16 April 2021

Oxford Philharmonic's Music & Maths: Baroque & Beyond

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Marcus du Sautoy and the Oxford Philharmonic On Sunday 18 April 2021, the Oxford Philharmonic, conductor Marios Papadopoulos, will be presen...

Welsh National Opera is 75

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Yesterday (15 April 2021) marked Welsh National Opera's 75th birthday. The company's first performance was on 5 April 1946 at Princ...

Youthful opportunities: musical activities for young people and more from Opera North, the Liverpool Phil and Welsh National Opera

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Opera North Orchestra Academy (Photo Justin Slee) Nowadays, community engagement for professional music ensembles (orchestras, opera compani...

A name to watch: American counter-tenor Randall Scotting sings the Refugee in Jonathan Dove's Flight in Seattle (and on-line)

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  Jonathan Dove: Flight - Randall Scotting - Seattle Opera (Photo Philip Newton) The young American counter-tenor Randall Scotting is very m...
Thursday, 15 April 2021

Now a well-established on-line concert series, Sands Films created The Music Room in their film studio as a response to 2020's lack of performances for artists

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Music Antica Rotherhithe at Sands Films' The Music Room (taken from live-stream) Sands Films' The Music Room has become a regular fi...

Music positively explodes from the disc: Australian group Ensemble Offspring's Offspring Bites 3

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En Masse: Offspring Bites3 - Alex Pozniak, Holly Harrison, Thomas Meadowcroft; Ensemble Offspring Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 13 ...
Wednesday, 14 April 2021

Richard Strauss satirising his publisher & exploring exoticism with vertiginously high vocals: Unerhört (Outrageous) from tenor Daniel Behle and pianist Oliver Schnyder

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Unerhört - Richard Strauss; Daniel Behle, Oliver Schnyder; Prospero Classical Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 13 April 2021 Star rat...

Ryedale Festival launches its 40th birthday celebrations with on-line Spring festival

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The Long Gallery, Castle Howard (Photo Heikki Immonen via Wikipedia ) The Ryedale Festival is 40 this year and there will be celebratory fes...
Tuesday, 13 April 2021

James Blades' Percussion Instruments and their History

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Legendary percussionist James Blades' Percussion Instruments and their History was first published in 1971 (with an introduction from B...

Winchester Chamber Music Festival - live and on-line

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St Paul's Church, Winchester Like many smaller festivals this year, the Winchester Chamber Music Festival is having to be creative. The ...

Manchester Song Festival: Kathryn Rudge, Kathrine Broderick, and RNCM Songsters at Stoller Hall

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Manchester Song Festival - Ruth Gibson, Kathryn Stott, Katherine Broderick (image taken from live stream) Manchester Song Festival; Kathry...
Monday, 12 April 2021

Towards Perfection: the idea of an ideal version of an opera has not always played out in history, with composers being surprisingly willing to rewrite works to suit circumstances

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Stuart Laing, Kristy Swift & ensemble - Beethoven's 1804 Leonore at the Buxton Festival , 2016 (photo Robert Workman) Whilst it mig...

Quite how they did it: Tête à Tête's Lessons From Live Opera In 2020: The Movie

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Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival at Cockpit Theatre in 2020, with a real live audience (Photo Claire Shovelton) During 2020, Tête à Têt...