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Saturday, 21 January 2017

Looking ahead: Rattle-mania and more at the Barbican in 2017/18

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LSO with Sir Simon Rattle - photo Ranald Mackechnie The Barbican's 2017/18 classical music season is one of enormous diversity. Simo...

Premiere postponed

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We were sorry to miss the BBC Symphony Orchestra's concert at the Barbican last night (20 January 2017), which was cancelled because of ...

Completely entrancing: CPE Bach cello concertos from Nicolas Altstaedt & Arcangelo

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CPE Bach Cello Concertos ; Nicolas Altstaedt, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen; Hyperion Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jan 17 2017 St...
Friday, 20 January 2017

Looking ahead: ETO's Silver Electra

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Each year English Touring Opera (ETO) commissions a new opera for children and families, to tour alongside their main stage programme. For...

A Viennese Quartet Party: music and memoirs from Mozart's Vienna

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A Viennese Quartet Party , Mozart, Haydn, Vanhal, Dittersdorf; Revolutionary Drawing Room, Simon Russell Beale, Omnibus Classics ...

Trinity Laban Gold Medal Showcase

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There is a chance to catch some of the bright stars of Trinity College of Music and Drama as six of their most outstanding graduates from ...
Thursday, 19 January 2017

Spiritual dimension: piano and chamber music by Jeffrey Roden

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Jeffrey Roden threads of a prayer ; Sandro Ivo Bartoli, Bennewitz Quartet, Szymon Marciniak, Wolfgang Fischer, Johannes Kornfeld; Solai...

The fruit of collaboration; hear Making Music's 'Adopt a Composer' pairings on BBC Radio 3

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For many amateur groups, the idea of commissioning a piece is a scary and remote process, whilst young composers do not always get the cha...

Looking ahead: London Festival of Baroque Music

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The theme of this year's London Festival of Baroque Music is Baroque at the Edge . The festival, which runs from 12 to 20 May 2017, ce...
Wednesday, 18 January 2017

1767 - a retrospective: eleven-year old Mozart in context

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Gemma Summerfield, Ian Page, Stuart Jackson, orchestra of Classical Opera Flickr photo credit treble2309 (Andrea Liu) 1767 - a retr...

Luca Buratto: Honens piano competition winnner makes Wigmore Hall debut

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Luca Buratto The young Italian pianist, Luca Buratto , winner of the Honens International Piano Competition , will be making his Wigmore...

Duet for many

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The Duet Philharmonic Orchestra, Ronald Corp & soloists at Royal Festival Hall performing Mahler's Symphony No. 8 In April 2017,...
Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Music in places where orchestras find it hard to reach: Orchestras Live's 2017 season

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Members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Sunningdale School, Sunderland. (c) Kev Brady Photography Orchestras Live presents orch...

Lively reminder: music from the Globe's productions of Twelfth Night & Richard III

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Music for Twelfth Night & Richard III arr. Claire van Kampen; Musicians of Shakespeare's Globe; Globe Music Reviewed by...

New light on old songs: Van Diemen's Land with Sam Lee and Notes Inégales

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Sam Lee - photo Frederic Aranda The folk-singer Sam Lee will be joining with Peter Wiegold's Notes Inégales to perform Van Diemen...
Monday, 16 January 2017

Winter and Spring season at the Howard Assembly Rooms

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Howard Assembly Rooms Opera North's activities in Leeds cover far more than just opera (see my article about the 2017/2018 season),...

Black morality tale: Ligeti's Le grand Macabre at the Barbican

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Ligeti - Le grand Macabre - Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra and ensemble at the Barbican Hall John Phillips/Getty Images Li...
Sunday, 15 January 2017

A treatie of humane love: Martin Peerson's setting of Fulke Greville's Caelica

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Martin Peerson Mottects or Grave Chamber Musique ; I Fagiolini, Fretwork, James Johnstone; REGENT Reviewed by Robert Hugill on ...
Saturday, 14 January 2017

Concentrated intensity: George Benjamin and Martin Crimp's Written on Skin revived at Covent Garden

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Barbara Hannigan - Written on Skin , The Royal Opera © ROH/Stephen Cummiskey, 2012 George Benjamin Written on Skin ; Barbara Hanniga...

Jorge Navarro-Colorado wins Audition Oracle Singers Preparation Scholarship

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Jorge Navarro-Colorado Photo: Jamie Capewell  The Spanish tenor Jorge Navarro-Colorado has been popping up in the blog ever since we s...