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Thursday, 16 January 2025

A highly effective synthesis: James Joyce's The Dead in a dramatised reading from Niamh Cusack with music from The Fourth Choir that underscored the emotional drama

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The Dead - Niamh Cusack, The Fourth Choir, Jamie Powe - Wilton's Music Hall (Photo: Kathleen Holman) The Dead : James Joyce, Sarah MacDo...
Tuesday, 14 January 2025

Calling aspiring composers: ORA Singers 2025 Graduate and Young Composers schemes open

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Suzi Digby at ORA Singers' Graduate Composer scheme ORA Singers is looking for young composers as their 2025 Graduate Composers scheme a...

Creating a personal world: Ethel Smyth's earliest orchestral work alongside contemporary pieces by inti figgis-vizueta and Ying Wang

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Lauter!  Ethel Smyth, inti figgis-vizueta;Ying Wang; ensemble reflektor, Holly Hyun Choe; Solaire Records Reviewed 14 January 2025 Ethel Smy...
Monday, 13 January 2025

An alternative Valentine, a Welsh songbook and celebrating 10 years of Creative Minds in Song: Song in the City's 2025 season begins

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Song in the City's Creative Minds in Song Song in the City is an artist-led charity directed by Gavin Roberts and Rebecca Cohen that aim...

The complete Walton songs: there aren't that many but Siân Dicker, Kyrstal Tunnicliffe, Saki Kato certainly make us understand why they are all worthy of attention

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William Walton: Complete Song Collection ;  Siân Dicker, Krystal Tunnicliffe, Saki Kato; DELPHIAN Reviewed 12 January 2025 Shedding a light...
Saturday, 11 January 2025

The idea of Greece: Robin Tritschler and Jonathan Ware in a wide-ranging recital from Schubert, Loewe & Wolf to Shostakovich, Dvorak, Berkeley & Ravel

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Photo: Antonio Beato, 19th century Brooklyn Museum Greek Songs : Schubert, Loewe, Wolf, Conradin Kreutzer, Ludwig Berger, Shostakovich, Dvor...
Friday, 10 January 2025

Continuo Foundation opens applications for funding for round 9!

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Handel: Messiah - Manchester Baroque at Manchester Cathedral in December 2024 (Photo: Tom Bowles) Continuo Foundation is inviting applicatio...

precept.concept.percept XII - open call for composers and performers for residency run by Slovenian .abeceda [new music ensemble]

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There is an open call for composers and performers for a residency  programme for 2025.  The precept.concept.percept residency focuses on a...
Wednesday, 8 January 2025

Uprising! Director Sinéad O’Neill on Glyndebourne's new community opera written by Jonathan Dove and April De Angelis

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Can one person make a difference? Horrified by the climate crisis, teenager Lola decides that she must fight for the future. Composer Jonat...

Our December newsletter has arrived: songs by Robert Kahn and Thomas Pitfield, new youth opera and Pieces that Disappear

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  The Cast of ENO’s The Pirates of Penzance 2024 © Craig Fuller In case you missed it online, our December newsletter has arrived, a handy ...
Tuesday, 7 January 2025

Idomeneo in Amsterdam: Lawrence Cummings joins forces with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui for a new production of Mozart's first mature opera

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Mozart's Idomeneo  is regarded as his first mature opera, written for Munich in 1781. The subject may not have been Mozart's choice ...

Drawing us in: baritone James Atkinson makes his Wigmore Hall debut with pianist Iain Burnside in a programme moving from Robert to Clara Schumann to Brahms' late tombeau for Clara

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Robert and Clara Schumann Schumann: Eichendorff Liederkreis , Clara Schumann: Gedichte aus Rückerts Liebesfrühling , Brahms: Four Serious So...
Monday, 6 January 2025

A significant link between Gounod's Faust & Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann, Saint-Saens's Le timbre d'argent gets a rare UK outing revived by New Sussex Opera

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Offenbach: La princesse de Trébizonde - Anthony Flaum, Meriel Cunningham - New Sussex Opera in 2021 (Photo Colin Chapman) Under Léon Carval...

Don Giovanni, Dido and two Handel operas: Ensemble OrQuesta's new season

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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...

We Are! In support of Ukraine

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Violinist Roman Mints is the artistic director of WE ARE! Concert in Support of Ukraine , a night of music and solidarity to support Ukrai...
Saturday, 4 January 2025

New Year in Berlin: Tony Cooper's cultural break takes in a new Torsten Rasch piece, Beethoven's Choral Symphony, Mendelssohn's Paulus & artists of Circus Roncalli

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Silvesterkonzert - Artists of Circus Roncalli, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Paul Daniel - Tempodrom, Berlin (Photo: Pet...
Wednesday, 1 January 2025

As we wish everyone a Happy New Year, it is a time to look back at 2024 and celebrate

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Ben Goldscheider & Gavin Higgins at the London premiere of Gavin Higgins' Horn Concerto with London Chamber Orchestra (Photo: Jerom...
Tuesday, 31 December 2024

2024 in record reviews: white-hot prophets, sensitive souls, a German in Venice, Holst's organ and the 20th century brass band

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Early and late feature heavily in this year's selection, but in the middle a pair of individual performances stand out. The white-hot dr...
Monday, 30 December 2024

2024: A year in concert reviews, astonishing youth, late-romantic rarities, riveting symphonic theatre

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Janine Jansen, Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky - Le Piano Symphonique, Lucerne (Photo: Philipp Schmidli, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester) Baroque ...
Sunday, 29 December 2024

2024: A year in opera reviews, strong individual performances, reinventing classics and historically informed Wagner

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Britten: Death in Venice - Antony César (Tadzio), Frederico Saggese (Jaschiu) - Welsh National Opera (Photo Johann Persson) It was one of t...