Three Choirs Festival 2027 announced: Gavin Higgins premiere, Grace-Evangeline Mason as new Associate Composer, Elgar's Piano Concerto revisited

Three Choirs Festival 2027 announced: Gavin Higgins premiere, Grace-Evangeline Mason as new Associate Composer, Elgar's Piano Concerto revisited

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Bright Young Things to the fore: Liam Steel's new production of Strauss' Die Fledermaus at Opera Holland Park revels in its 1920s London setting

Bright Young Things to the fore - review: Liam Steel's new production of Strauss' Die Fledermaus at Opera Holland Park revels in 1920s London setting

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Up Close and Musical: Shiry Rashkovsky's concert series to be first classical offering at The Amadeus, Maida Vale

Up Close and Musical: Shiry Rashkovsky's concert series to be first classical offering at The Amadeus, Maida Vale

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A meaty, not to say tough programme: Sakari Oramo, Guy Johnston & BBC Symphony Orchestra in Britten's Cello Symphony, Turnage premiere & Sibelius at the BBC Proms

Meaty, not to say tough-review: Sakari Oramo, Guy Johnston & BBC Symphony Orchestra in Britten's Cello Symphony, Turnage premiere at BBC Proms

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Concerto Copenhagen, Mass in B Minor, music for Charles II: London Festival of Baroque Music returns with Iestyn Davies again as artistic director

Concerto Copenhagen, Mass in B Minor, music for Charles II: London Festival of Baroque Music returns with Iestyn Davies as artistic director

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The next generation of composers: ORA Singers' Young Composers' Showcase at Kings Place

The next generation of composers: ORA Singers' Young Composers' Showcase

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Virtuosity & discipline: John Wilson & the Sinfonia of London in Respighi's Roman trilogy & Walton's Cello Concerto

Virtuosity & discipline - concert review: John Wilson & the Sinfonia of London in Respighi's Roman trilogy & Walton's Cello Concerto at BBC Proms

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Eboracum Baroque | Vivaldi Four Seasons Recording

Recording Vivaldi's Four Seasons for recorder, cello and harpsichord alongside cantatas by Handel for soprano.

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It was Francesca Caccini's score, & Vache Baroque's performance, that surprised & captivated: La liberazione di Ruggiero at Buxton International Festival

Francesca Caccini's score, & Vache Baroque's performance surprised & captivated - review: La liberazione di Ruggiero at Buxton Festival

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More than a concert: Mozart's La clemenza di Tito at the Buxton Festival brings out the work's real drama

More than a concert - opera review: Mozart's La clemenza di Tito at the Buxton Festival brings out the work's real drama

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Against a backdrop of fear, surveillance and political violence, the play explores the absurdity of tyranny, the courage of resistance and the enduring power of art to speak truth when words cannot.

The Holy Fool: a new play by Rosalind Adler & Lea Sellers at the Park Theatre explores the life & music of Dmitri Shostakovich

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Conducting is a profession of lifelong learning: Vasily Petrenko on nurturing talent & broadening horizons

Conducting is a profession of lifelong learning: Vasily Petrenko on nurturing talent & broadening horizons at Academy for Young Conductors in Armenia

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Compelling music drama: Wagner's Tristan und Isolde returns to Longborough Festival Opera with Peter Wedd & Catharine Woodward, conductor Anthony Negus

Compelling music drama - review: Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at Longborough Festival Opera with Peter Wedd & Catharine Woodward, cond: Anthony Negus

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Style & enjoyment: John Wilson & Sinfonia of London bring Cheltenham Music Festival to a close with a light music programme culminating in Eric Coates's rarity Cinderella

Style & enjoyment - review: John Wilson & Sinfonia of London bring Cheltenham Music Festival to a close with a light music

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There is no iceberg, no skeleton key; Finnegans Wake is not a cipher. It is only itself.

There is no iceberg, no skeleton key; Finnegans Wake is not a cipher. It is only itself. Composer Alistair White on James Joyce's epicn

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Full circle: Blackheath Halls Community Opera celebrates 20 years with a return 'Carmen', the opera that launched the company

Full circle: Blackheath Halls Community Opera celebrates 20 years with a return 'Carmen', the opera that launched the company

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June on Planet Hugill: The Ring in Berlin, Mozart in concert & on stage, despatches from Aldeburgh

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New research links Handel's organist in Dublin with the Scottish fiddler & composer Charles Macklean

New research links Handel's organist in Dublin with the Scottish fiddler & composer Charles Macklean

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Upping its game: 10th anniversary Windsor Festival International String Competition concludes with concerto finale with orchestra for the first time

Upping its game: 10th anniversary Windsor Festival International String Competition concludes with concerto finale with orchestra for the first time

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The Bridgewater Hall celebrates its 30th birthday drawing together various strands of Manchester's music making

The Bridgewater Hall celebrates its 30th birthday drawing together various strands of Manchester's music making

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Jacob was wrestling in the arms of a stranger: London Concord Singers to premiere Robert Hugill's 'Aubade & Love Song'

Jacob was wrestling in the arms of a stranger: London Concord Singers to premiere Robert Hugill's 'Aubade & Love Song'

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Gutsy & vivid: Verdi's La traviata at St Paul's Opera imaginatively reinvents the work as parable of punk London

Gutsy & vivid - opera review: Verdi's La traviata at St Paul's Opera imaginatively reinvents the work as parable of punk London

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The colour of love: a film of Augusta Holmès's Au bois dormant celebrates lovers in Soho

The colour of love: a film of Augusta Holmès's Au bois dormant celebrates lovers in Soho

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Saxophones in the City: saxophonist Jess Gillam invites saxophonists & clarinettists to come & play for massed event as part of CBSO in the City festival

Saxophones in the City: saxophonist Jess Gillam invites saxophonists & clarinettists to come & play for massed event at CBSO in the City festival

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Giulio Cesare at the Grange: superb music performances compensate for David Alden's scattershot approach to Handel's masterpiece

Giulio Cesare at the Grange - opera review: superb music performances compensate for David Alden's scattershot approach to Handel's masterpiece

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It's all about the music: Opera Holland Park chorus & City of London Sinfonia on terrific form under Naomi Woo in powerful, celebratory Turandot

It's all about the music - review: Opera Holland Park chorus & City of London Sinfonia on terrific form + Naomi Woo in powerful, celebratory Turandot

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80th anniversary: the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates with its new season & music director Vasily Petrenko looks forward

80th anniversary: the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates with its new season & music director Vasily Petrenko looks forward

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Concertos for friends: Colin Currie in Tansy Davies, Tamsin Waley-Cohen in Freya Waley-Cohen with BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Kevin John Edusei at Aldeburgh Festival

Concertos for friends: Colin Currie in Tansy Davies, Tamsin Waley-Cohen in Freya Waley-Cohen with BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Kevin John Edusei

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Allow yourself to be seduced: Tsinandali Festival features the Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra at historic estate in Georgia

Allow yourself to be seduced: Tsinandali Festival features the Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra at historic estate in Georgia

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ECHO Rising Stars announced for 2027-28 including Laura van der Heijden, Junyan Chen, Fibonacci Quartet, Aaron Azunda Akugbo

ECHO Rising Stars announced for 2027-28 including Laura van der Heijden, Junyan Chen, Fibonacci Quartet, Aaron Azunda Akugbo

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