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Monday, 17 April 2023

Celebrating Rachmaninoff & Ligeti: the eighth London Piano Festival

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London Piano Festival - two piano marathon at Kings Place Katya Apekisheva and Charles Owen's London Piano Festival returns to Kings Pla...

Stamford International Music Festival

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Stamford International Music Festival Freya Goldmark at Stamford Arts Centre Under any circumstances, Stamford in Lincolnshire is a delightf...

A festival of youthful music making: the National Youth Orchestra on cracking form for their immersive NYO Ignite programme

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Stravinsky: The Firebird - National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Andrew Gourlay - Royal Festival Hall (Photo Mark Allen) NYO Ignite - ...
Sunday, 16 April 2023

What happened next

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I first met Dionysios Kyropoulos in 2013, whilst he was doing an MPhil in Cambridge, when we met to chat about his ideas on the use of histo...
Saturday, 15 April 2023

The trumpet being reimagined: trumpeter Lucy Humphris chats about her debut disc, Obscurus,

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Lucy Humphris & Harry Rylance (Photo foxbrush.co.uk) Trumpeter Lucy Humphris ' debut disc, Obscurus , on Rubicon Classics with pian...
Friday, 14 April 2023

Celebrating young talent: The Martin Read Foundation's Annual Festival

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Joe Jolliffe, Josh Clark, Felix Sladen-Jewell, William Dear with Joseph Spooner The Martin Read Foundation  (MRF) was set up in memory of th...

Expand your experience of music: courses and more for the over-18s

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Alex Laing conducting at a Benedetti Foundation session (Photo: Simon Gough) There seems to be plenty going on at the moment for those non-p...

Andrew Parrott's The Pursuit of Musick: an exploration of music and music's place in society over 500 years looked at through the words and images of contemporaries

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Andrew Parrott:  The Pursuit of Musick: musical life in original writings & art c1200-1770 ; Taverner Andrew Parrott 's The Pursuit ...
Thursday, 13 April 2023

Half Baroque, half contemporary, half French, half British: Le Concert de l'Hostel de Dieu brings its 50/50 programme to the UK

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In December last year, I interviewed Franck-Emmanuel Comte of the Lyons-based ensemble Le Concert de l'Hostel de Dieu [see my interview...

What came after: Schütz' telling of the Resurrection story in Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi proves masterly

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Henrich Schütz: Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi ; Ensemble Polyharmonique, Alexander Schneider; Accentus Reviewed 11 April 2023 Schu...
Wednesday, 12 April 2023

Music at Paxton: nine days of music-making in Georgian and Regency splendour in the Scottish Borders

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The Regency Picture Gallery at Paxton House Music at Paxton presents nine days of music at Paxton House , the historic Georgian mansion in t...

Starry, starry night: Islington Festival of Music and Art 2023

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Islington Festival 2022 (Photo Marc Gascoigne) The Islington Festival of Music and Art returns with a festival themed around Van Gogh's ...

Filmic vividness: Bjørn Morten Christophersen's Darwin-inspired oratorio The Lapse of Time is a complex, large-scale piece of writing

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Bjørn Morten Christophersen: The Lapse of Time; Ensemble 96, Telemark Chamber Orchestra, Ditte Marie Bræin, Frank Havrøy, Inger-Lise Ulsrud,...
Tuesday, 11 April 2023

Handel, G&S, Roald Dahl and more: Lichfield Festival 2023

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Grimethorpe Colliery Band in Lichfield Cathedral This year's Lichfield Festival runs from 6 to 16 July 2023 and features music of all ki...

BCMG continues blooming in Birmingham

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Having recently celebrated the cherry blossom flowering with an outdoor concert, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group is continuing its BCMG...

A joyous Easter celebration from Florilegium at Wigmore Hall

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Zelenka: Concerto a 8 concertanti in G - Florilegium in rehearsal at Wigmore Hall (Photo Florilegium ) Zelenka: Concerto a 8 concertanti in ...

Norwich-based music writer, Tony Cooper, looks forward to the North Norfolk Music Festival coming round this Summer

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St Mary's Church, South Creake - home of the North Norfolk Music Festival Now in its 18th glorious year, the North Norfolk Music Festiva...
Sunday, 9 April 2023

A tale of two passions: Sebastiani's St Matthew Passion at Wigmore Hall and Bach's St John Passion at St Martin in the Fields

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Sebastiani: St Matthew Passion - Fretwork in rehearsal at Wigmore Hall (Photo Fretwork ) Johann Sebastiani: St Matthew Passion ; Hugo Hymas...
Saturday, 8 April 2023

A multiplicity of possibilities: pianist Edna Stern on Bach and the art of Zen

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Edna Stern Pianist Edna Stern 's latest disc (on Audio Note Music ) focuses on Book One of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier , but the di...
Friday, 7 April 2023

The sheer sense of engagement from the young choral singers was a joy: Bach's St Matthew Passion from Choir of King's College, London at St John's Smith Square

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Title page of Bach's autograph score of the St Matthew Passion Bach: St Matthew Passion ; Choir of King's College, London, Hanover B...