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Thursday, 19 August 2021

Technicolour dreams: Anita Rachvelishvili's Élégie on Sony Classical

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Élégie - Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Otar Taktakishvili, Tosti, Duparc, Falla; Anita Rachvelishvili, Vincenzo Scalera; Sony Records ...
Wednesday, 18 August 2021

Celebrating 10 years of the Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival

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Guy Johnston and friends performing in the Marble Hall of Hatfield House (Photo courtesy of Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival) Hatfield ...

High Energy: an evening of firsts from the Manchester Collective and Mahan Esfahani at the BBC Proms

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The Manchester Collective in rehearsal at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms (Photo c/o Manchester Collective) Gorecki, Finnis, E...
Tuesday, 17 August 2021

Singer moves

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News of two singers taking on significant other roles, with tenor Nicky Spence joining Help Musicians as an Ambassador and mezzo-soprano Ka...

Sobering reading: Equality & Diversity in Concerto Halls

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Performers and programmers are making admirable moves to create more diverse concert programmes, with the inclusion of more works by women a...

'a time of enhanced creativity - and constrained opportunity' - Stuart MacRae's Prismatic

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Stuart MacRae Prismatic Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 11 August 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) For this hauntingly atmosph...
Monday, 16 August 2021

La Boheme in Belfast: Northern Ireland Opera opens its 2021/22 season

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Noah Stewart & Gemma Summerfield Northern Ireland Opera is launching its 2021/22 season with a new production of Puccini's La boheme...

Gluck's Paride ed Elena staged in London for the first time, 250 years after the premiere

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Gluck: Paride ed Elena - Ella Taylor, Lucy Anderson - Bampton Classical Opera (photo Jeremy Gray) Christoph Willibald Gluck wrote four work...

From RVW in the woods to Adina's wellness spa: Waterperry Opera Festival 2021

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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore - Thando Mjandana, Alison Langer - Waterperry Opera Festival 2021 (Photo Marc Brenner) Donize...
Sunday, 15 August 2021

Making the most of opportunity: a brilliant young cast in Rossini's early farsa with British Youth Opera

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Rossini: L’occasione fa il ladro - Laura Fleur, Patrick Alexander Keefe,Sam Harris, Helen Francis Corlett - British Youth Opera R...
Saturday, 14 August 2021

Don't be scared of song: I chat to pianist Malcolm Martineau the sheer variety of Fauré's songs

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Gabriel Fauré playing piano duets Mlle. Lombard in 1913 Pianist Malcolm Martineau has just released the fourth (and final) volume of The Co...
Friday, 13 August 2021

Aldeburgh Festival 2022

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Aldeburgh Music and Snape Maltings Concert Hall from across the River Alde (Photo Philip Vile) Britten Pears Arts is giving itself space to...

Hopes & Fears: The Opera Makers at Grimeborn Festival

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As part of the Arcola Theatre's Grimeborn Festival, The Opera Makers is presenting a new work based around a collection of stories of p...

Late romanticism to the fore in Vladimir Jurowski, the London Philharmonic Orchestra & Steven Isserlis' exploration of Walton & Hindemith at the BBC Proms

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Vladimir Jurowski (Photo Matthias Creutziger) Stravinsky, Walton, Bach arr Goldmann, Hindemith; Steven Isserlis, London Philharmonic O...

Its wild energy cannot but move: Alex Paxton's Music for Bosch People

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Alex Paxton Music for Bosch People ; Birmingham Record Company Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 10 August 2021 Music of surprisin...
Thursday, 12 August 2021

Nature's Songbook: Oxford Lieder Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary with its biggest festival yet and a return to live audiences

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Sholto Kynoch, artistic director of the Oxford Lieder Festival This Autumn, Oxford Lieder Festival marks its return to events with live audi...
Wednesday, 11 August 2021

Theatrical dazzle: Hansel & Gretel re-invented as a modern theatrical fairytale at British Youth Opera

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Humperdinck: Hansel & Gretel - Eva Gheorghiu, Fiona Finsbury, Rosalind Dobson - British Youth Opera at Opera Holland Park (Ph...

Dark thoughts & anarchic energy: Six Degrees of Separation represents the response of six young composers to 2020

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Six Degrees of Separation ; Patrick John Jones, Christian Drew, Stef Conner, Emma-Kate Matthews, Chris McCormack, Alex Paxton; London Sy...
Tuesday, 10 August 2021

When These Rocks Were Still Young: a new film from Scottish composer & percussionist Oliver Cox, & Gaelic vocalist Julie Fowlis.

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When These Rocks Were Still Young - Oliver Cox A new film premiering online this month as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe features li...

Compare and contrast: The Marian Consort's Cadogan Hall Prom paired Josquin with later composers writing in homage.

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Josquin des Prez, Sethus Calvisius, Adrian Willaert, Vincente Lusitano; The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery; BBC Proms at Cadogan Hall ...