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Tuesday, 10 September 2024

L'Olimpiade: Vache Baroque makes an engaging case for Pergolesi's penultimate opera

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Pergolesi: L'Olimpiade - Natasha Page Vache Baroque (Photo: Michael Wheatley) Pergolesi: L'Olimpiade ; Aoife Miskelly, Nazan Fikret...
Monday, 9 September 2024

A subtle depiction of a complex man, Green Opera's 555:Verlaine en prison at Grimeborn

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Verlaine drinking absinthe in the Café François 1er in 1892, photographed by Paul Marsan Dornac (Photo: Musée Carnavalet ) Logan Lopez Gonza...
Saturday, 7 September 2024

Scaling the peak: David Skinner on completing his Byrd project with The Great Service with Alamire in a recording reflecting new ideas about pitch and scoring

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Alamire & His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts at All Hallows Gospel Oak for recording sessions for Byrd's Great Service For such...
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Friday, 6 September 2024

Discovering Imogen: A relatively underrated British composer, Imogen Holst is put centre stage in this brand-new recording on NMC

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Discovering Imogen - Imogen Holst: Overture Persephone, Suite in F Allegro assai for strings, Suite for Strings, Variations on ‘Loth to Dep...
Thursday, 5 September 2024

Exquisite vocal lines & imaginative storytelling: Harry Christophers & The Sixteen focus on Stanford's secular choral music in Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs

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Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs ; The Sixteen; Harry Christophers; CORO Reviewed 22 July 2024 by Tony Coooper Punctuating Sir C...
Wednesday, 4 September 2024

Vampires, the Angel of Death and Prophets - our August e-newsletter is now out

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Bizet:   Carmen   - dancers, Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Anja Bihlmaier - Glyndebourne Festival at BBC Proms (Photo:...

A Choral Celebration of Queen Mary II returns with Chapel Choirs of the Old Royal Naval College and the Royal Hospital Chelsea at Chelsea History Festival

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A Choral Celebration of Queen Mary at Old Royal Naval College The Chapel Choirs of the Old Royal Naval College and the Royal Hospital Chelse...

An orchestra re-invented: Chromatica Orchestra's new season with Emerging Conductor Fellowships for Charlotte Politi and Tess Jackson.

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The Bath Festival Orchestra is reinventing itself as Chromatica Orchestra, and the new ensemble debuts at Battersea Arts Centre on Tuesday 8...

Music of a Silent World: Chanticleer in an eclectic recital exploring the natural world

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Chanticleer Earlier this Summer, I had the delight of being part of a small audience at the Voces8 centre when the American male-voice ensem...
Tuesday, 3 September 2024

A Road Less Travelled: in advance of its London premiere, Alec Roth discusses his 2017 song cycle to poems by Edward Thomas

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Edward Thomas by Frederick Henry Evans bromide print, circa 1904 NPG P476 © National Portrait Gallery , London On 17 September 2024, St Mart...
Monday, 2 September 2024

JAM on the Marsh: VIRTUAL - highlights from this year's festival free, online, from Beethoven & Mahler to four new operas inspired by Derek Jarman

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JAM on the Marsh - Aki Blendis with JAM Festival Orchestra, conductor Michael Bawtree Following sell-out performances from this year’s JAM o...

Drawing you in: Ensemble OrQuesta combined physical theatre with comedy & a sense of anger in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at Grimeborn

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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro - Rosemary Carlton-Willis, Marcio da Silva, Joshua Furtado-Mendes - Ensemble OrQesta at Arcola Theatre's Gri...
Saturday, 31 August 2024

To Lviv with Love: Paul Mann combines conducting in the Ukraine with investigating neglected composers for Toccata Classics, including the Swiss composer Richard Flury

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Paul Mann British conductor Paul Mann is the principal guest conductor of Lviv National Philharmonic (based in Lviv, the largest city in W...
Friday, 30 August 2024

Prom 52: Intelligent, vivid & satisfying account of Bizet's Carmen from Rihab Chaied, Evan LeRoy Johnson & Anja Bihlmaier at Glyndebourne's visit to the BBC Proms

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Bizet: Carmen - Rihab Chaieb, Evan LeRoy Johnson, Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Anja Bihlmaier - Glyndebourne Festiva...

Prom 50: Two rarities and a classic from Jakub Hrůša and Czech Philharmonic

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Dvorák: Piano Concerto - Mao Fujita, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Jakub Hruša - BBC Proms (Photo: BBC/Andy Paradise ) Vítězslava Kaprálová...
Thursday, 29 August 2024

Nothing less than astonishing: Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 from Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

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In April this year, Graham Ross directed the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge in a performance of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 at S...
Wednesday, 28 August 2024

Prom 49: A consumate & deeply felt account of Suk's masterful Asrael Symphony crowns the Czech Philharmonic's first appearance at the 2024 BBC Proms

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Dvorák: Cello Concerto - Anastasia Kobekina, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Jakub Hruša - BBC Proms (Photo: BBC/Andy Paradise ) Dvořák: Cell...
Tuesday, 27 August 2024

Far from special interest: discs of brass band music by Arthur Bliss and Malcolm Arnold, two brilliant and highly satisfying portraits

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Arthur Bliss: Works for Brass Band ; Black Dyke Band, John Wilson; Chandos Malcolm Arnold: Music for Brass Band ; Foden's Band, Choir of...

Darbar Festival: the world’s largest festival of Indian classical music (outside India) returns to the Barbican Centre

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The world’s largest festival of Indian classical music (outside India) returns to the Barbican Centre from 24 to 27 October 2024 when Darbar...

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire launches a French season with Berlioz' Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale

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Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People - painted to commemorate the 1830, July Revolution Berlioz' Grande symphonie funèbre et tri...