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Monday, 15 April 2024

From the Homeland: Islington Festival of Music and Art

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Islington Festival (Photo: Marc  Gascoigne) Islington Festival of Music and Art is returning with fourteen events across nine venues in and ...

Energy, discipline, control and sheer love of music-making: National Youth Orchestra and National Youth Brass Band in Gavin Higgins, Dani Howard, Prokofiev, Julius Eastman and more

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National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Jessica Cottis Catalyst : Coleridge-Taylor, Julius Eastman, Gavin Higgins, Dani Howard, Prokofiev...
Saturday, 13 April 2024

No boundaries or rules: Yorkshire-based Paradox Orchestra is reinventing the orchestral concert whether it be bringing a string orchestral sound to Pink Floyd fans or disco to music festivals

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The Paradox Orchestra - Fifty Years of Pink Floyd - Leeds Minster The Paradox Orchestra is a relatively new professional ensemble based in ...
Friday, 12 April 2024

Turkey's leading orchestra, the German national youth orchestra plus ensembles from Tokyo, Prague, Vienna, Buenos Aires: 2024/25 Zurich International Orchestra Series at Cadogan Hall

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Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra The 2024/25 Zurich International Orchestra Series at Cadogan Hall has recently been announced and as...

Full of good things: Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort in John Dowland, a new Cassandra Miller concerto and much else besides

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John Dowland: Lachrimae, or Seaven Tears - Sean Shibe, The Dunedin Consort Milton Court Concert Hall Rowallan Manuscript , Straloch Manuscr...
Thursday, 11 April 2024

Metamorfosi: York Early Music Festival 2024

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The York Early Music Festival was established in 1977 to celebrate music from the medieval to the baroque within an array of historic venues...

A little bit of magic: Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories sung one to a part at the original pitch by I Fagiolini and Robert Hollingworth

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Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories ; I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth; CORO Reviewed 9 April 2024 Just one voice to a part, just intonation and...

The choirs of two of London's historic chapels come together for the first time to celebrate the Queen instrumental in founding both

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The choirs of two of London's historic chapels are coming together for what is thought to be their first joint concert. The Old Royal Na...
Wednesday, 10 April 2024

Dramatic Britten, athletic Watkins and high-energy Mozart: Britten Sinfonia, Ben Goldscheider and Nicky Spence at Milton Court

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Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings - Ben Goldscheider, Nicky Spence, Britten Sinfonia - Milton Court (Photo: Shoel Stadlen) Ju...

Small but mighty: Music at Paxton 2024

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Paxton House Based at the delightful 18th-century Paxton House in the Borders, Music at Paxton is a chance to hear international, national ...

New Directions: two new Digital Opera Shorts from Music Theatre Wales

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Music Theatre Wales' New Directions programme is devoted to re-imagining opera and in an age when the funds for commissioning and pres...
Tuesday, 9 April 2024

A lovely evocation of stillness and calm: Alastair Penman's Quietude on his Meadowbank Music label

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Quietude : Penman, Satie, Debussy, Humperdinck, Bruckner; Alastair Penman Reviewed 9 April 2024 A rather lovely disc that mixes Penman's...

Gŵyl Machynlleth Festival

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The mid-Wales market town of Machynlleth plays host to artists from classical, Welsh and world music each August for the Machynlleth Festiva...

Celebrating the RNLI: a community event from Manchester Camerata & Orchestras Live's Classically Yours at Withernsea High School

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Withernsea sea front - Withernsea Lifeboat speeds past Pier Towers (Photo courtesy of Withernsea RNLI via BBC ) 2024 is the 200th anniversar...
Monday, 8 April 2024

Three different harps, a Moog Voyager, Ableton and various FX modules: composer Graham Fitkin and harpist Ruth Wall join forces for Harpland

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FitkinWall: Harpland Migration is not new. It’s been going on for millennia. The reasons for migration may be geological, climate based, opp...

Deadly Sins in New York and Silver Lion in Venice: Ensemble Modern

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Wallis Giunta (Photo: Dario Accosta) Ensemble Modern is currently on a small tour of the USA with concerts in Houston and New York including...

Catalyst: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, National Youth Brass Band & Jessica Cottis in Gavin Higgin's Concerto Grosso for Brass Band & Orchestra & much more

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National Youth Brass Band Gavin Higgin's  Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra was premiered at the BBC Proms in 2022 by The Tr...
Saturday, 6 April 2024

Bizet's Carmen at Covent Garden: gritty realism & a reluctance to add any local colour & movement, redeemed by musical performances

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Bizet: Carmen, Act One - Blaise Malaba, Aighul Akhmetshina - Royal Opera House (Photo: ROH/Camilla Greenwell) Bizet:  Carmen ; Aigul Akhmets...

Spell Book, Witch & Stone Fruit: composer Freya Waley-Cohen on the power of ritual and spells

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Freya Waley-Cohen: Spell Book - Héloïse Werner, Manchester Collective - Barbican (Photo: César Vásquez Altamirano) On 1 February 2024, Manc...
Friday, 5 April 2024

Sea Songs: Brighton Philharmonic in Geirr Tveitt's Hardanger fiddle concerto and other delights

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Ragnhild Hemsing and Hardanger fiddle (Photo: Nikolaj Lund) On Sunday, 7 April 2024, Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra's season finale at ...