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Tuesday, 17 June 2025

The opening work of the Aldeburgh Festival’s 76th edition fell to Colin Matthews’ A Visit to Friends, the composer’s first foray into opera.

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Colin Matthews: A Visit to Friends - Lotte Betts-Dean, Marcus Farnsworth - Aldeburgh Festival (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith) Colin Matthews:...
Monday, 16 June 2025

Becoming Tosca: Prologue Opera brings its unique approach to the 2025 Grimeborn Festival

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Have ever seen an operatic performance and wondered about a character’s backstory and what drives them? Tenor Anthony Flaum founded Prologue...

Side-By-Side - Brixton Chamber Orchestra & Lambeth school children, conductor Matthew O'Keeffe - Church of St John the Divine, Kennington

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Side-By-Side - Brixton Chamber Orchestra & Lambeth school children, conductor Matthew O'Keeffe - Church of St John the Divine, Kenni...
Saturday, 14 June 2025

A sonic portrait of British Jewish families: composer Na'ama Zisser on the JMI Archive

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Tai Rona at the launch event for the JMI Archive at Stone Nest The Jewish Music Institute (JMI) is the UK’s home for Jewish music and for d...
Friday, 13 June 2025

The one where Dido kills Aeneas: Oliver Platt radically refocuses Purcell's opera at Guildhall School

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Purcell: Dido & Aeneas - Joshua Saunders as Aeneas with the Witches - Guildhall School (Photo: David Monteith-Hodge) Purcell: Dido and...
Thursday, 12 June 2025

Redefining "Success" as a Classical Musician

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Stevens & Pound - Delia Stevens and Will Pound On 21 June 2025 at Stromness Town Hall as part of the St Magnus Festival, the duo Stevens...
Wednesday, 11 June 2025

From kazoo & harpsichord to large electronically-augmented ensemble: Alex Paxton's Delicious on New Amsterdam Records is a multi-layered maximalist delight:

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Alex Paxton: Delicious - Scrunchy Touch Sweetly to Fall (kite and finger run), Shrimp BIT Baby Face, Dadd's Fairies, Justgum Friends, S...

Window of opportunity: City Music Foundation opens applications for its 2025 programme

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CMF Artists Connaught Brass City Music Foundation (CMF) is opening its 2025 programme to applications from Friday 13 June 2025, giving emerg...

Esprit Submergé: French string quartet Page Blanche give the first UK performances of Luke Styles' new string quartet

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Page Blanche is a string quartet made up of musicians from the Orchestre de Paris, but with a twist they are violin, viola, cello and double...
Tuesday, 10 June 2025

A valuable window onto the sound world of the Tudor Court on progress: Henry VIII on Tour from Ensemble Pro Victoria & Toby Ward

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Henry VIII on Tour: music from Tudor Royal Progresses -  William Cornysh, William Rasar, John Redford, Dionisius Prioris, Philippe Verdelot,...

Eternal Light: the seventh Summer Music in City Churches returns to the City of London

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The seventh Summer Music in City Churches  returns to the City of London from 18 to 27 June, celebrating choral music in the City's chur...
Monday, 9 June 2025

Orpheus Sinfonia commissions concertos from three major female composers, Cheryl Frances Hoad, Roxanna Panufnik and Sally Beamish

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Orpheus Sinfonia The Orpheus Sinfonia, a young professional orchestra founded in 2009, created its Foundation Programme in 2023. The Foundat...

Out of the ashes: Cambridge Schola, formed out of the disbanded St John's Voices, joins with BBC Singers for Rachmaninov's Vespers at Ely Cathedral

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  Cambridge Schola Around this time last year, St John's College, Cambridge disbanded St John's Voices, the mixed voice choir based ...

Diverse & eclectic: Peter Cigleris & Amaia Quartet in clarinet quintets by Mozart & the 20th century English composer David Gow

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Silhouette of the clarinettist Anton Stadler For whom Mozart wrote the Clarinet Quintet David Gow, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Mozart; Peter Ci...
Saturday, 7 June 2025

A lot more emotional resonance than you might expect: Jonathan Dove & Alasdair Middleton's Itch return to Opera Holland Park shows it is more than a rattling good yarn

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Jonathan Dove: Itch - Xavier Hetherington - Opera Holland Park (Photo: Craig Fuller) Jonathan Dove & Alasdair Middleton: Itch ; Xavier ...

Intrigued by stories & narratives: members of Apollo's Cabinet on their musical exploration of the world of 18th century actress Kitty Clive

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Apollo's Cabinet at Bachfest Leipzig in 2024 (Photo: Emanuel Mathias) The early music ensemble Apollo's Cabinet is known for its ev...
Friday, 6 June 2025

Back to the 1890s: Dinis Sousa & the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment move out of their comfort zone reveal magic moments in Elgar

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Elgar - Dinis Sousa, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Queen Elizabeth Hall Elgar: In the South , Sea Pictures , Enigma Variations ; F...
Thursday, 5 June 2025

Dazzling aural journeys where the political commentary and sheer playfulness combine with a serious purpose: Anselm McDonnell's Politics of the Imagination

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Anselm McDonnell: Stop Small Boats , Politics of the Imagination , The Union is our God , Cross-Purposes;  Crash Ensemble, London Symphony O...
Wednesday, 4 June 2025

Kirklees Concert Season 2025/26: Orchestra of Opera North's year round concert season in Huddersfield and Dewsbury Town Halls

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Elena  Urioste, Gary Walker & Orchestra of Opera North at Huddersfield Town Hall The Kirklees Concert Season is a year-round programme o...

Festival of Musical Ideas: Gresham College holds inaugural festival fusing music with science and the humanities

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Gresham College is hosting the inaugural  Festival of Musical Ideas  on Friday 20 June 2025 at the college in Barnard’s Inn Hall, Holborn. G...