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Monday, 18 April 2022

Exploring Weinberg: two works for cello & orchestra alongside the last Chamber Symphony No. 4 in a lovely disc from French ensemble Les Metamorphoses & cellist Pieter Wispelwey

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Weinberg: Cello Concertino , Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra, Chamber Symphony No. 4 ; Pieter Wispelwey, Jean-Michel Charlier, Les Metamorp...
Saturday, 16 April 2022

From the Shenandoah Valley to Kensington Gardens: I chat to Ella Marchment about her new role at Shenandoah Conservatory & directing the UK premiere of Mark Adamo's Little Women

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Ella Marchment with the other founders of SWAP'ra, Madeleine Pierard, Anna Patalong, and Kitty Whately, and conductor Jessica Cottis at ...
Friday, 15 April 2022

Virtuoso voices: Hilary Cronin and Hugh Cutting in motets by Handel and Vivaldi with London Handel Orchestra

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Palazzo Colonna in Rome The Colonna family commissioned Handel's Saeviat tellus Handel: Saeviat tellus & Silete venti , Vivaldi: St...
Wednesday, 13 April 2022

Beauty and the Seven Beasts: using seven composers and mixing film with live performance, The Opera Story's latest show is a remarkable triumph

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Beauty and the Seven Beasts - Dan D'Souza - The Opera Story (Photo Nick Rutter) Beauty and the Seven Beasts - Vahan Salorian, Jude Ober...
Tuesday, 12 April 2022

We had no idea that this Lenten music would become so poignant in today’s turbulent world - Tom Herring of SANSARA reflects on music for St John’s Smith Square’s Easter Festival

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SANSARA (Photo Theo Williams) In the guest posting, Tom Herring of SANSARA reflects on how music programmed for St John’s Smith Square’s Ea...

Historical stagecraft & modern sensibilities: a powerful Tamerlano from Cambridge Handel Opera Company

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Handel: Tamerlano - James Laing, Leila Zanette, Christopher Turner, Caroline Taylor - Cambridge Handel Opera Company (Photo: Jean-Luc Benaz...
Monday, 11 April 2022

The Third Orchestra: how Peter Wiegold and Club Inégales are creating an orchestra with a diverse and inclusive approach that is embedded in the very musical practices.

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Peter Wiegold and The Third Orchestra Pre-pandemic, one of the highlights of the season would be going to a small basement club near Euston ...

Alcina and Arminio to Kurt Cobain and Kaija Saariaho to Werther and Wozzeck, the Royal Opera House's new season

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The Royal Opera has announced plans for its 2022/23 season, with 11 new productions split between the main stage and the Linbury. New main s...

The Handmaid's Tale: Poul Ruders operatic version of Margaret Atwood's dystopic tale returns in a stark new production with an astonishing performance from Kate Lindsey in the title role

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Poul Ruders: The Handmaid's Tale - English National Opera (Photo: Catherine Ashmore) Poul Ruders: The Handmaid's Tale ; Kate Lindse...
Friday, 8 April 2022

Tiresias 2.0: in an open workshop at Stoller Hall, composer Dominic Matthews will present snippets of his new opera, and talk about his compositional journey

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Manchester-based composer Dominic Matthews is collaborating with librettist Sam Redway on a new opera, Tiresias 2.0  which Matthews describ...

Back on the road again: pianist James Lisney celebrates his 60th birthday with a concert tour in repertoire from Beethoven & Chopin to Scriabin & Stevenson

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James Lisney (Photo: S Maeder) The pianist James Lisney is celebrating his 60th birthday by going on tour, and the concerts also celebrate L...

Schoenberg in Hollywood: Tod Machover's opera finally gets its European premiere in Vienna

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Tod Machover 's 2018 opera Schoenberg in Hollywood  takes as its starting point the moment when, having fled Nazi Germany and taken refu...

When words fail music speaks

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Solace : Concert in Support of SOS Children's Villages Ukraine Relief  is an event bringing together a number of distinguished musicians...

Radiant Poison

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Radiant Poison - Misha Penton from Misha Penton on Vimeo . Soprano and composer Misha Penton has released a new EP, Radiant Poison . Se...
Thursday, 7 April 2022

Music Lights the Way

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  Music Lights the Way  is a celebratory piano concert at the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) in Toronto, Canada which takes place on 27 A...

Manchester Guitar Festival: Sean Shibe, Craig Ogdon, the Ukulele Uff Trio, flamenco and more

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The Manchester Guitar Festival at Stoller Hall, 20-22 May 2022 is a celebration of all things guitar from classical and jazz, acoustic, ele...

British Piano Concertos: Simon Callaghan revives six undeservedly neglected mid-Century works

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British Piano Concertos : John Addison, Arthur Benjamin, Elizabeth Maconchy, Humphrey Searle, Edmund Rubbra, Geoffrey Bush; Simon Callaghan,...
Wednesday, 6 April 2022

Alertness and vivacity: Geoffroy Jourdain and Les Cris de Paris in Heinrich Schütz

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Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) - David & Salomon ; works from  Psalmen Davids sampt etlichen Moteten und Concerten , Op. 2 (1619),  Cantion...

New head of classical music, new resident ensembles: Southbank Centre launches its 2022/23 season

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Manchester Collective at the Soutbank Centre (Photo: Vic Frankowski) The Southbank Centre's recently announced Autumn/Winter 2022/23 cla...

Alexander Gadjiev receives the 2022 Terence Judd-Hallé Award

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Alexander Gadjiev, The Terence Judd-Hallé Award commemorates the work and tragically short life of pianist Terence Judd (1957-1979), a remar...