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Review – King’s Lynn Festival at 75
In north Norfolk a music Festival in its 75th year could be doing more to honour the vision of its…
Podcast 235: Pianist and Composer Beatrice Nicholas
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre isn’t a name many will recognise — despite an opera that reached the Paris stage…
News – Sir Anthony Hopkins signed by Decca Classics
Decca’s partnership with Sir Anthony Hopkins sees film-score sentiment rather than concert-hall risk doing a lot of marketing heavy lifting…
Podcast 234: Laura Bowler and the Cheltenham Music Festival’s Composer Academy
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre isn’t a name many will recognise — despite an opera that reached the Paris stage…
Review – Opus13 play Mendelssohn, Janáček, and at Cheltenham 2026
From a signature Mendelssohn to Janáček’s fevered final quartet, Opus13 play like a group with little to prove and everything…
Review – Angela Hewitt at Cheltenham Festival 2026
A performer drawing her advocates close in to make the case for an escape to the country….
Review – Gervase De Peyer: As I Knew Him (Katia de Peyer)
A touching memoir from Katia de Peyer about her life with the internationally renowned clarinettist…
Review – Pierre-Laurent Aimard at Aldeburgh Festival 2026
Art. Likely. Subversive? Probably….
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236: Guy Johnston on Britten’s Cello Symphony – Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast
- 236: Guy Johnston on Britten’s Cello Symphony
- 235: Pianist Beatrice Nicholas
- 234: Laura Bowler and the Cheltenham Music Festival's Composer Academy
- 233: Belly of the Beast at Aldeburgh, Spitalfields and Edinburgh
- 228 Repeat: Aldeburgh & Snape, 50 Years After Britten's Death
- 232: Adrian Brendel on Tree of Strings
- 231: Bergen International Festival's Lars Petter Hagen
- 230: Franco Fagioli
- 229: Christophe Rousset on Lully, Mozart, and playing with rules
- 228: Aldeburgh & Snape 50 years after Britten's Death
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