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Friday, 16 February 2024

Olawale Olayinka: Songs My Mother Taught Me

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Olawale Olayinka is a young Nigerian classically trained violinist, currently based in London. If you have seen Brixton Chamber Orchestra or...
Thursday, 15 February 2024

70th birthday celebrations for composer Richard Blackford continue with performances, publications & recordings

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Richard Blackford Composer Richard Blackford celebrated his 70th birthday last month, and the celebrations are spreading out across the yea...

A Lionel Tertis Celebration: Timothy Ridout, Frank Dupree, James Baillieu; Harmonia Mundi

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A Lionel Tertis Celebration -  York Bowen,  Rebecca Clarke, Vaughan Williams, Lionel Tertis, Frank Bridge, Brahms, Schumann, Faure, William ...
Wednesday, 14 February 2024

Lente Verelst and Hull Urban Opera invite you to The End of the World Party

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The young Belgian composer  Lente Verelst came to attention with her opera, Crocodile , which took ideas from Samuel Beckett and turned the...

Young Composers 5: the latest iteration of the National Youth Choir's Young Composers scheme challenge & stimulate

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Young Composers 5:  Millicent B James, Will Harmer, Emily Hazrati, Alex Tay; National Youth Choir, NYC Fellowship Ensemble, Emily Dickens, B...

Direct, determined, and loud: Welsh composer David John Roche introduces his new electric guitar concerto for Sean Shibe

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Welsh composer David John Roche describes his music as 'direct, determined, and loud', and it is strongly influenced by heavy meta...
Tuesday, 13 February 2024

Workshops, Welsh song for families, Cleveland Watkiss, Mark Padmore, Hera Hyesang Park - the Manchester Song Festival 2024

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Manchester Song Festival The 2024 Manchester Song Festival is at Stoller Hall from 1 to 3 March 2024 with a lively weekend of concerts, work...

Pierre Loti's writings inspired Léo Delibes' opera Lakmé and a whole genre of Orientalist operas

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Loti (right) with Chrysanthème and Pierre le Cor in Japan, 1885. Pierre Loti has a lot to answer for. Whilst he certainly did not invent Or...

Celebrating 75 years: London Mozart Players in wonderful form for all-Mozart programme at Fairfield Halls plus the launch of 100 Faces of Croydon

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Mozart: The Mixtape - Imogen Cooper, Jonathan Bloxham, London Mozart Players - Fairfield Halls (Photo: William Vann via Twitter ) Mozart: Th...
Monday, 12 February 2024

Magnum Opus: Britten Sinfonia's composer development scheme showcases work from 2023 composers David John Roche, Daniel Soley and Crystalla Serghiou

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Magnum Opus Composers 2023: David John Roche, Daniel Soley and Crystalla Serghiou Norwich-based music writer, Tony Cooper, reports on Britte...

Personal choice: Love's Lasting Power, debut disc of Schubert lieder from duo Harriet Burns and Ian Tindale on Delphian

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Schubert Lieder: Love's Lasting Power ; Harriet Burns, Ian Tindale; Delphian Reviewed 5 February 2024 With a youthful flexibility, emoti...

Something a little bit special: David Butt Philip & friends gala for St Paul's Opera in Clapham

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Rainelle Krause, David Butt Philip, Alison Langer, St Paul's Opera chorus - St Paul's Church (Photo: Craig Fuller Photography) David...
Saturday, 10 February 2024

A Star Next to the Moon: Stephen McNeff on his new opera, based on Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, a seminal novel of magic realism

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On 26 February 2024, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama gives the premiere of Stephen McNeff 's new opera, A Star Next to the Moon...
Friday, 9 February 2024

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama celebrates its 75th anniversary with plans to restore and revitalise Cardiff's historic Old Library

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Cardiff Free Library - photo by Bettia's puppet - Own work, Public Domain The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama will be celebrati...

Easter Festival at St John's Smith Square

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St John's Smith Square 2024 marks the 300th anniversary of the first performance of Bach's St John Passion , and St John's Smith...

Horns galore: incandescent playing from Ben Goldscheider in the London premiere of Gavin Higgins' terrific new concerto

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Gavin Higgins: Horn Concerto - Ben Goldscheider, Gavin Higgins, Christopher Warren Green, London Chamber Orchestra (Photo: Jerome Weatheral...
Thursday, 8 February 2024

Sitting in a concert hall is not a great place to have a musical experience: Frederick Waxman introduces Our Mother, Figure's dramatic staging of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater

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This is my body Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri from Figure at the Swiss Church in 2023 The ensemble Figure, co-artistic directors Fred...

Diagrams & sonatas: discs of solo piano music Arvo Pärt and Ivor Gurney, neither composer well-known for writing in the genre

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Ivor Gurney: Piano Sonatas 1 & 3, Adagio from Piano Sonata 2 , Five Preludes ; George Rowley; Naxos Arvo Pärt: Diagrams, complete music ...
Wednesday, 7 February 2024

Music of our Time: JAM's exploration of new music for choir, brass quintet and organ returns to St Bridge's Church

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Onyx Brass at JAM's Music of our Time at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street JAM's Music of   our Time  returns to St Bride's Ch...

Opera Emerging: a Documentary with Scottish Opera Emerging Artists 2023/24

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A lovely documentary from Scottish Opera that follows emerging artists Ross Cumming (baritone), Inna Husieva (soprano), Monwabisi Lindi (te...