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Sunday, 17 September 2023

Polite pastoral: Handel's Tolomeo from Baroque Encounter

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Handel: Tolomeo ; Carmen Lasok, Glenn Kesby, Lucy Thomas, John  Lofthouse, director: Christopher Tudor, conductor: Asako Ogawa; Baroque Enco...
Saturday, 16 September 2023

Mesmerising chamber drama: Dani Howard & Joseph Spence's The Yellow Wallpaper from The Opera Story

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Dani Howard: The Yellow Wallpaper - The Opera Story (Photo: Ida Guldbæk Arentsen) Dani Howard and Joseph Spence: The Yellow Wallpaper ;  Cl...
Friday, 15 September 2023

Barcelona Youth Symphony Orchestra gives a Pablo Casals memorial concert in London

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A young Pau Casals, by Ramon Casas The great Catalan cellist Pablo Casals (Pau Casals i Defilló in Catalan) died 50 years ago in 1973 at the...

Music for youth: young bassoonists, an early-career organist and free concerts for Secondary Schools

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Rising start organist Matthew Walters is the first Associate Artist at Fairfield Halls, the Royal College of Music is launching a free Youn...

A glimpse into the lively musical life of 18th-century Dublin: Smock Alley from Carina Drury's ensemble Irlandiani

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Smock Alley: Tommaso Giordani, Thomas Roseingrave, Domenico  Scarlatti and Geminiani; Irlandiani - Carina Drury, Poppy Walshaw, John-Henry B...
Thursday, 14 September 2023

We cannot afford to live on what you are paying us: Freelancers Make Theatre Work's Big Freelancer Survey 2023

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Freelancers Make Theatre Work is an inclusive, independent community for the 200,000+ self-employed and freelance workers from all areas of ...

In celebratory mood, the Cambridge Music Festival notches up its 30th anniversary this year. East Anglian music writer, Tony Cooper, reports.

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Takács String Quartet (Photo: Amanda Tipton) Cambridge Music Festival 's autumn concert series (Sunday 17 October to Wednesday 15 Novemb...

Tragédie lyrique given with great sympathy and style: Passion from Véronique Gens with Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas at Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival

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Passion - Véronique Gens, Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas - Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival (Photo: bayreuth.media) Passion ...
Wednesday, 13 September 2023

Continental Drift: BCMG's new season sees collaborations exploring the music of South Korea, Japan and China

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Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) is celebrating collaborations across cultures and genres with...

Celebrating one of King's Lynn's most distinguished residents: the Charles Burney Early Music weekend returns

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Charles Burney by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1781 Following the success of the annual Early Music Days in King's Lynn in July and the inaugu...

From Purcell and Handel to Ignatius Sancho and Duke Ellington: American countertenor Reginald Mobley at Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival

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Christine Plubeau, Violaine Cochard, Reginald Mobley - Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival (Photo Bayreuth.Media) Purcell, Handel, Ignatius Sanc...
Sunday, 10 September 2023

Extravagantly theatrical: Handel's Flavio revived by Bayreuth Baroque in the splendour of the 18th-century theatre

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Handel: Flavio - Rémy Brès-Feuillet (in bath), Yuriy Mynenko - Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival (Photo: Clemens Manser) Handel: Flavio ; Jul...
Saturday, 9 September 2023

Operatic arias & overtures by Frederick the Great's court composer, Graun, in the opera house built by the king's sister

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Carl Heinrich Graun Carl Heinrich Graun: opera arias; Valer Sabadus, {oh!} Orkiestra, Martyna Pastuszka; Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival at ...
Thursday, 7 September 2023

Composition workshop at Morley College led by Edward Henderson from Bastard Assignments

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The Solid performed by Edward Henderson for Bastard Assignments Composer Edward Henderson (one of the lively minds that make up Bastard As...
Tuesday, 5 September 2023

Blair Coron's 'A Carrying Stream': a new collection of music and companion public exhibition

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Blair Coron - Photo by Skaiste Klaniute Blair Coron is a musician and poet from Springfield, a small village in Fife, Scotland. His quiet an...
Monday, 4 September 2023

Still banned after all these years: Gay theatre company, Homo Promos has its Wormwood Scrubs performance of an opera about Ivor Novello in prison cancelled at a few days notice

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Peter Scott-Presland's gay theatre group Homo Promos was founded in 1988 as a response to Section 28, which forbade councils from ‘inten...

Music while you dine: Pizza Express Classical Song Series is back at the Pheasantry, Chelsea

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Pianist William Vann is back with a further song series as part of Pizza Express Live at The Pheasantry in Chelsea. The three-concert series...

Prom 64: An evening of compelling drama and wonderful music making, Dinis Sousa conducts Berlioz' Les Troyens at the BBC Proms

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Berlioz: Les Troyens, Act 2 - Alice Coote, Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Dinis Sousa - BBC Proms (Photo: BBC/An...

Baroque rarity: Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre's Céphale et Procris at the Grimeborn Festival

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Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre:  Céphale et Procris Ensemble OrQuesta Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: Céphale et Procris ; Ensemble OrQuesta...
Saturday, 2 September 2023

In case you missed it: August on Planet Hugill: Ruddigore, Fedora, Alice and the Sphinx

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Wagner: Tannhäuser - Le Gateau Chocolat - Bayreuth Festival (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath) Welcome to our newsletter Augu...