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Wednesday, 15 May 2024

Quite a Summer: Tom Fetherstonhaugh and Fantasia Orchestra have three festival debuts including the BBC Proms

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Jess Gillam, Tom Fetherstonhaugh & Fantasia Orchestra in rehearsal  (Photo: Fantasia Orchestra) Tom Fetherstonhaugh and Fantasia Orches...
Monday, 13 May 2024

The results were indeed glorious: Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Bruckner in Dresden

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 - Klaus Mäkelä, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Dresdner Musikfestspiele at the Kulturpalast (Photo: Stephan Floss...

Finding her voice: Elisabetta Brusa on her compositional style and creating her foundation

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Elisabetta Brusa Elisabetta Brusa taught composition at the Milan Conservatoire for 39 years. Her latest choral album – Requiem and Stab...
Saturday, 11 May 2024

The journey continues: Dresden's historically informed Ring returns with a revelatory Die Walküre

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Wagner: Die Walküre - Åsa Jäger, Simon Bailey - Dresdner Musikfestspiele (Photo: Oliver Killig) Wagner: Die Walküre; Maximilian Schmitt, Sa...
Wednesday, 8 May 2024

Evolving with the Orchestra: composer Robin Haigh on his recent orchestral works

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The Irish/British composer Robin Haigh is having a busy year with performances of all four of his major orchestral works. Jessica Cottis co...
Saturday, 4 May 2024

A willingness to explore: Stéphane Fuguet on recording Monteverdi and Lully at Versailles with his ensemble, Les Épopées

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Stéphane Fuguet & Les Épopées (Photo: Pascal Le Mée) In June 2024, harpsichordist, conductor and director, Stéphane Fuguet and his ense...
Friday, 3 May 2024

Mozart in 1774: Samantha Clarke, Jane Gower, The Mozartists, and Ian Page on stylish form at Wigmore Hall

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Samantha Clarke (Photo: Benjamin Ealovega) Mozart in 1774 - Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 28 & 30 , Bassoon Concerto , music from La finta gia...

Bruckner’s Skull, Nordic Music Days, New Dimensions and Re:Connect: Scottish Chamber Orchestra's new season

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Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Maxim Emelyanychev in Aberdeen (Photo: Christopher Bowen) The 2024/25 season sees Maxim Emelyanychev returnin...
Thursday, 2 May 2024

Father Willis, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Goldberg Variations: King's Lynn Festival's Early Music Day

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European Union Chamber Orchestra King's Lynn Festival's annual celebration of all things Early Music, its Early Music Day will be re...

The Ballad of the Nipple: Paul Alan Barker's seven melodramas for piano

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Melodrama as a dramatic musical genre has a somewhat patchy history. Whilst Mozart would say of Georg Benda's melodramas 'I love th...
Wednesday, 1 May 2024

Vigour, energy and joy: A Choral Celebration of Queen Mary II from the choirs of the Royal Hospital Chelsea and Old Royal Naval College

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Willem Wissing (1656-87) - Mary II (1662-94) when Princess of Orange c.1686-87  (Photo: Royal Collection Trust RCIN 405643) A Choral Celebr...

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's 2024/25 season

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's 2024/25 season is its third with chief conductor Ryan Wigglesworth. Wigglesworth will be directing Elg...
Tuesday, 30 April 2024

14 premieres, music in iconic spaces, the Cries of London: Spitalfields Music Festival 2024

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Spitalfields Music Festival returns with events in iconic spaces across East London from 27 June to 10 July 2024. The festival opens with so...

The meaning of music in a terrifying world: BCMG to premiere Joe Cutler and Max Hoehn's Sonata for Broken Fingers

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An urban myth tells of how, one evening, Stalin made a surprise phone call to Radio Moscow demanding the urgent delivery of a record: a Moza...

A neglected gem revived: New Sussex Opera in Lampe's The Dragon of Wantley combining historic style and 1980s politics

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Lampe: The Dragon of Wantley - Charlotte Badham - New Sussex Opera (Photo: Robert Knights) Lampe & Carey: The Dragon of Wantley ; Ana B...
Monday, 29 April 2024

Lobesgesang: Mendelssohn's rarely performed symphony-cantata is a fine climax to Sir Andras Schiff and the OAE's exploration of the composer's symphonic music

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Portrait of Mendelssohn by Wilhelm Hensel, 1847 Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto , Symphony No. 2 'Lobesgesang' ; Lucy Crowe, Hilary Cro...
Saturday, 27 April 2024

Fear no more: Brindley Sherratt on releasing his first recital disc

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Brindley Sherratt (Photo: Gerard Collett) I first chatted with bass Brindley Sherratt in early 2020 about a fundraising gala he was organis...
Friday, 26 April 2024

David Pickard says farewell to the BBC Proms with 90 concerts across the UK including Bizet's Carmen, Julius Eastman's Symphony No. 2, Suk's Asrael Symphony and much more

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So, the BBC Proms are on us again. The 2024 festival runs from 19 July to 14 September 2024 with 73 concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and 17...

Named for the 1996 Pride party on Clapham Common, Omnibus Theatre's 96 Festival is back for its ninth year and we're presenting 'Out of the Shadows' there

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In 1996, the Pride festival took place on Clapham Common and attracted 250,000 to party on the Common. In celebration of this, Omnibus Theat...
Thursday, 25 April 2024

A German in Venice - Schütz alongside music he could have heard in Venice, a wonderfully life-affirming disc

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Schütz: A German in Venice - Schütz, Monteverdi, Rossi, Grandi, Cavalli, Sances; David de Winter, The Brook Street Band, FHR; Reviewed 24 A...