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Thursday, 20 May 2021

Young composers and old music at the National Centre for Early Music in York

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The National Centre for Early Music (NCEM) in York has been having a busy time of it. NCEM hosted the final of its 14th Young Composer Award...
Wednesday, 19 May 2021

Making goodness interesting: a new recording of Handel's Rodelinda from the English Concert with Lucy Crowe, Iestyn Davies and Joshua Ellicott

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Handel Rodelinda ; Lucy Crowe, Iestyn Davies, Joshua Ellicott, Jess Dandy, Brandon Cedel, Tim Mead, The English Concert, Harry Bicket; L...

Birthday celebrations indeed: Cecilia McDowall at the BBC, the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music, Presteigne and more

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Cecilia McDowall Amazingly, Cecilia McDowall is celebrating her 70th birthday this year and not surprisingly her music has been popping up ...

Welcoming live audiences back at Conway Hall

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Conway Hall The 2020/21 season at Conway Hall Sunday Concerts is coming to a close with something of a bang as, for the first time this year...
Tuesday, 18 May 2021

Remembering Denys Darlow at this year's Tilford Bach Festival

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Denys Darlow This week we have already marked the centenary of the horn player Dennis Brain, and now comes another remarkable centenarian. ...

Pianist George Fu introduces his EP which launches Listenpony Sessions

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George Fu at Listenpony #16 On Friday 28 May 2021, Listenpony is releasing the first of a planned series of EPs, Listenpony Sessions , which...

Legacy: A Tribute to Dennis Brain from horn player Ben Goldscheider

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Legacy: A Tribute to Dennis Brain - Watkins, Arnold, Poulenc, Britten, Panufnik, Maxwell Davies; Ben Goldscheider, Huw Watkins, James G...
Monday, 17 May 2021

Polska Scotland: Celebrating a rich cultural history

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Scotland's links to Poland date back to trade routes in the 15th century and by the end of the 17th century 30,000 Scots had migrated to...

Summer at Snape

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Snape Maltings Britten Pears Arts is not presenting an Aldeburgh Festival this year, but they have announced an action-packed  Summer at Sna...

Side-stepping with deft elegance the issue of what instrument the music was written for, Andrew Wilder reinvents Bach's Lute Suites on classical guitar

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Bach Complete lute music ; Andrew Wilder Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 14 May 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A young American class...
Sunday, 16 May 2021

A Life On-Line: Recovering The White Rose, rediscovering Grainger, rethinking Bach, reimagining Elgar

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Jorge Jimenez - Rethinking Bach (Capture from stream) This week we have been busy rediscovering, rethinking and reimagining whether it be Th...
Saturday, 15 May 2021

Bärenreiter's Schubert edition, BBC Singers & Bathrobe recitals: baritone Jamie W Hall's remarkable journey to making his first solo disc, Schubert's 'Die schöne Müllerin '

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Jamie W Hall If you kept an eye on the Twittersphere during 2020 then the name Jamie W. Hall may be familiar, as he became something of a ...
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Friday, 14 May 2021

A new trombone concerto, a focus on Shostakovich and his pupil Galina Ustvolskaya, Minute Masterpieces and more: Opera North's Kirklees Concert Season

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Conductor Nil Venditti makes her Opera North debut (photo Marco Borrelli) After a year of silence, Opera North and Kirklees Council's Ki...

Streamed, live-audiences or both? As ensembles consider innovative ways of returning to performance with live audiences, Middlesex University has been doing some research

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Ely Cathedral As restrictions are gradually released, arts organisations are mulling the conundrum of how to incorporate what has been learn...

The Turk in Hampshire: Longhope Summer Opera's performances of Rossini's opera feature a cast of early-career singers

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Longhope Opera Rossini's delightful (and surprisingly complex) comedy, Il Turco in Italia is going to pop up in Hampshire in July thank...
Thursday, 13 May 2021

The Harmonious Echo: there are plenty of delights in this second dip into Sullivan's neglected song repertoire

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The Harmonious Echo - Songs by Sir Arthur Sullivan; Mary Bevan, Kitty Whately, Ben Johnson, Ashley Riches, David Owen Norris; Chandos ...

Four new productions, three revivals and some interesting debuts: English National Opera's brave new 2021/22 season

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English National Opera has announced its 2021/22 season and a brave return to normality. There are four new productions and three revivals,...
Wednesday, 12 May 2021

Together, apart: The House of Bedlam's Enclosure on NMC explores how musicians make music when not physically able to be together

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Enclosure - Larry Goves, Claudia Sessa, Matthew Sergeant, Sarah Hennies, Amber Priestly; The House of Bedlam; NMC Reviewed by Rober...

From pedal-power to new poetry: London Sinfonietta return to live audiences

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Composer Laura Bowler (photo Bob Clewey) The London Sinfonietta is returning to live performance with audiences with something of a bang, an...
Tuesday, 11 May 2021

Celebrating 10 years of lieder in Leeds - Leeds Lieder's 2021 festival welcomes audiences back for an action-packed weekend in June

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Leeds Lieder, artistic director Joseph Middleton, is 10 this year and having kept the lieder flag flying in Leeds with a series of live-stre...