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Tuesday, 18 June 2024

18 premieres, three new commissions and a new disc: Odaline de la Martinez celebrates her 75th birthday this Autumn

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Odaline de la Martinez  Composer/conductor Odaline de la Martinez celebrates her 75th birthday this Autumn, and is doing so in a typically ...
Monday, 17 June 2024

Medea Gosperia: a retelling of Euripides' Greek tragedy set in the Caribbean and featuring a fusion of musical styles

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Euripedes' classic tragedy Medea  has inspired writers and artists across the centuries as well as playwrights directly reinterpreting E...

Discover the Harp: Welsh company, Cambrian Harps take their discovery days on the road

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One of Cambrian Harps' Discover the Harp sessions Cambrian Harps, a company from the heart of Wales specialising in making harps and enc...

Time remembered: the 75th edition of the Aldeburgh Festival lovingly recreates the opening night of 1948 Festival

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Robin Haigh: LUCK - Matilda Lloyd, Britten Sinfonia, Jessica Cottis - Aldeburgh Festival at Snape Maltings, 2024 (Photo: Angus Cooke) Purce...
Friday, 14 June 2024

A disc that makes you think, but also satisfies as a recital in its own right: Songs for Peter Pears from Robin Tritschler & friends

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Songs for Peter Pears: Berkeley, Britten, Arthur Oldham, Richard Rodney Bennett, Geoffrey Bush; Robin Tritschler, Malcolm Martineau, Sean Sh...
Thursday, 13 June 2024

Second view: Anna Patalong makes her role debut as Puccini's Tosca at Opera Holland Park

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Puccini: Tosca - Opera Holland Park, 2024 (Photo: Ali Wright) Puccini: Tosca ; Anna Patalong, José de Eça, Morgan Pearse, director: Stephen...
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Wednesday, 12 June 2024

A school trip with a difference: the Richard Shephard Music Foundation celebrates Make Music Day in York

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The Yorkshire region has a rich musical history from the Arctic Monkeys to the Minster Choir, film composer John Barry to the National Centr...

An undeniable gift for melody: Charles Mauleverer's Overture

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Charles Mauleverer: Overture; Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Lee Reynolds, Prague Symphonic Ensemble, Jérôme Kuhn, Slovak Radio Symphony...
Tuesday, 11 June 2024

New hall, new season: newly renovated Bristol Beacon unveils its 2024/25 season of orchestral concerts

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Kirill Karabits at Bristol Beacon (Photo: Giulia Spadafora) Bristol Beacon reopened in November 2023 foll...

The 75th edition of the Aldeburgh Festival gets off to a good, spirited and proud start

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Messiaen: Hawari - Gweneth Ann Rand, Simon Lepper - Britten Studio, Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Festival (Photo Britten Pears Arts) Judith Wei...

13 premieres, a focus on Britten, William Mathias at 90: Presteigne Festival 2024

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The Shire Hall, Presteigne; photographed by Percy Benzie Abery c.  1910s This year's Presteigne Festival, the 42nd, runs from 22 to 26 A...
Monday, 10 June 2024

High Barnet Chamber Music Festival returns with Mithras Trio, artistic director Joshua Ballance's Mad Song, and music for cello and harp

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Founded four years ago by artistic director Joshua Ballance, the High Barnet Chamber Music Festival is returning with three concerts from 29...

Accordionist Melia Simonot announced as winner of inaugural BBC Radio Scotland Young Classical Musician of the Year

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Melia Simonot, winner of inaugural BBC Radio Scotland Young Classical Musician of the Year 21-year-old accordion player Melia Simonot was an...

After a successful inaugural season last year, Green Room is back for 2024 with a weekend of concerts in the Tithe Barn in Lenham

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Pasadena Roof Orchestra at Green Room in 2023 At a time when arts funding is at a perilous low, it is heartening to see a new venture thrivi...
Saturday, 8 June 2024

The Devil's Den: I chat to composer Isabella Gellis & conductor Finnegan Downie Dear about the new opera Shadwell Opera is presenting at the Nevill Holt Festival

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Ben Edge: Devil's Den Shadwell Opera , artistic director Jack Furness , music director Finnegan Downie Dear , is presenting its first fu...
Friday, 7 June 2024

Engaging, with an imaginative twist: Rossini's The Barber of Seville at Opera Holland Park

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Rossini: The Barber of Seville - Paul Grant - Opera Holland Park 2024 (Photo: Ali Wright) Rossini: The Barber of Seville ; Paul Grant, Elga...

A very modern sort of magic: Handel's Alcina at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama

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Handel: Alcina - Yolisa Ngwexana (Morgana) - Guildhall School (Photo: David Monteith-Hodge) Handel: Alcina ; Georgie Malcolm, Yolisa Ngwexa...
Wednesday, 5 June 2024

Getting ahead: Longborough Festival Opera gears up for next year.

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Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Lee Bisset as Brünnhilde - Longborough Festival Opera, 2024 (Photo: Matthew Williams-Ellis) T hankfully, Longborou...

Sensitive solo performances, youth choirs and with a rediscovery of the original orchestral sound: Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius from Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh, Nicky Spence

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Edward Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius; Nicky Spence, Andrew Foster-Williams, Anna Stéphany , Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Roar, Polish National...
Tuesday, 4 June 2024

Light Stories: cellist Matthew Barley unveils his latest cross-arts collaboration, alongside creating the Matthew Barley Arts Foundation.

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Matthew Barley [Photo: Madeleine Farley] When I first interviewed cellist Matthew Barley back in 2012 [see my interview ], he was preparing...