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Wednesday, 17 November 2021

Palazzetto Bru Zane's new edition of Offenbach's La Vie parisienne enables us to discover the composer's original intentions for the first time

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Offenbach: La Vie parisienne (Photo Vincent Pontet) When Offenbach's  La Vie parisienne premiered in 1866 at the Théâtre du Palais-Roy...

BSO's Voices from the East returns with a focus on Turkmen Russian composer Chary Nurïmov, and Azerbaijani composers Franghiz Ali-Zadeh and Kara Karayev

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Kirill Karabits and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms , 2019 (Photo Chris Christoulou) Like many orchestras, the Bournemouth S...

From youthful jeux d'esprit to late, late masterworks: Saint-Saens' chamber music with winds is well-worth exploring

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Camille Saint-Saens Complete music for piano and winds ; Les solistes de l'orchestre de Paris, Pascal Godart, Laurent Wagschal; Inde...
Tuesday, 16 November 2021

Northern Voices: Manchester Collective's commissioning scheme to provide a platform for bold and underrepresented voices

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Northern Voices artists CourtsWrites, CURRENTMOODGIRL, and Chris Alton with collaborator Emily Simpson. Photography: Brandina Chisambo Manch...

Counter-tenor Hugh Cutting wins the 2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards

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2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards winners: Helen Charlston,  Hugh Cutting, Laura Perešivana - (Photo  Emma Brown Photography At a ceremony on Sun...
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A disc to make us re-consider: Peter Warlock Songbook from Luci Briginshaw and Eleanor Meynell

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Peter Warlock Songbook ; Luci Briginshaw, Eleanor Meynell; Convivium Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 12 November 2021 Star ra...
Monday, 15 November 2021

CMF Artists 2021

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City Music Foundations artists 2021 (Photo Benjamin Ealovega) The City Music Foundation (CMF) has recently announced the eleven successful a...

From 'The Poppy' to 'Hit Her on the Bum': Ensemble Hesperi's debut disc, Full of the Highland Humours

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Full of the Highland Humours ; Ensemble Hesperi; EM Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 12 November 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★)...

No time to die featuring romantic repertoire ranging from popular covers to musicals and opera hits

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The pianist AyseDeniz Gokcin is continuing her mission to bring the worlds of classical music and rock together and has joined forces with ...
Saturday, 13 November 2021

Inspired by the work of sculptor Naum Gabo, I chat to Alex Groves about his latest music, as well as creating pieces inspired by Barbara Hepworth, and the importance of his concert series, Solo

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Alex Groves working on an R&D showcase with theatre maker Yve Blake at the Barbican Centre (Photo: Camilla Greenwell) Composer Alex Gr...
Friday, 12 November 2021

please - immense and imagine: latest neo-classical ambient music from Ukrainian pianist/composer Yaroslav Molochnyk

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Yaroslav Molochnyk is a young Ukrainian pianist who is currently studying at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden. He i...

Intimate and intense: Mahler with just voice and piano, Alice Coote, Stuart Jackson and Julius Drake at Temple Song

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Gustav Mahler (etching by Emil Orlik, 1902) Songs of Life and Death - Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen , Rückert-Lieder , extrac...
Thursday, 11 November 2021

'What the silence taught me' - concert in support of the UN Refugee Agency

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The flautist Nicola Woodward , who has recently been making a name for herself by recording all 96 of Charles Koechlin's Les chants de n...

Premiere of Bent Sørensen's third piano concerto, La sera estatica

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Bent Sørensen (Photo Lars Skaaning) During lockdown, pianist Katrine Gislinge would perform concerts at home for her husband, Danish compose...
Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Applications invited for the 2022 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg competition

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It was inevitable, I suppose, that  singing competition launched in 2016 by Staatstheater Nürnberg would be called  Die Meistersinger von Nü...

Handel opera for moths: artist Redell Olsen's collaboration with scientists and singers on 2020-21 DARE Prize commission

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Poet, writer and visual artist Redell Olsen was announced as the winner of the 2020-21 DARE Art Prize in June last year.   Awarded by the  ...

Recycle, re-use, re-think: Dai Fujikura's latest disc Glorious Clouds

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Dai Fujikura Glorious Clouds ; Minabel Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 10 November 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) From microorganisms...
Tuesday, 9 November 2021

Ich habe genug: Canadian company Sound The Alarm: Music Theatre's latest project uses a Bach cantata to explore issues of mental health, identity and more.

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Our relationship to the great works of the past is complex, and the current challenge is to explore further than musical works by dead white...

Dr Haydn's London Academy: Sir Roger Norrington bid farewell to the podium with a final concert with the Royal Northern Sinfonia

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Sir Roger Norrington (Photo Manfred Esser) In the early 1980s I went to a performance in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh where Roger Norring...

The Big Lockdown Music Survey

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NMC Recordings is launching The Big Lockdown Music Survey . From 8 November 2021, music creators will be able to submit music and take part ...