Category: Review
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Review – Gavin Higgins’ Speak of the North premieres at the Aldeburgh Festival 2025
Speak of the North is evocative, immediate, and unmistakably Higgins
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Review – Knussen Chamber Orchestra play Helen Grime’s Folk and Britten Nocturne and Suite on English Folk Tunes
Allan Clayton and Claire Booth shine in a programme that spans myth, melancholy and nocturnal dreams.
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Review – Fu & Betts-Dean: Solitude with Schubert
Where words fall short, Schubert’s music binds performers and audience in a shared meditation on grief.
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Review – Colin Matthews’ A Visit to Friends
A beautifully coordinated work of craft and musical ingenuity easy to admire, with a hint of Chekhovian ambiguity thrown in too.
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Review – Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with Pablo Ferrández and Dominic Hindoyan at Barbican
A confident Rachmaninov follows an uneven first half of Sierra and Elgar
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Radio 3’s RAJAR Q1 2025 win and ARIAs Gold
Radio 3 win at ARIAs and secure an increase in listeners in the most recent RAJAR results.
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Review – English Baroque Soloists with Marc Minkowski and the Labèque sisters
The English Baroque Soloists wow London with a rip-roaring rollercoaster ride around some of Mozart’s deliciously complex works.
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Smashing Aurora Orchestra Carnival concerts teased on social media
Aurora’s forthcoming Carnival of the Animals theatrical performance at Southbank Centre is much-anticipated — the first in a series of performances also visiting Bury St Edmunds and Snape Maltings. The billing for the characteristically convention-busting concert states: “Specially commissioned for this production, Richard Ayres’ new work Dr Frompou’s Anatomical Study of an Orchestra tells the…
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Review – National Open Youth Orchestra reveals just how much we don’t see
NOYO kick off their four concert tour with a performance at Milton Court featuring young disabled and non-disabled musicians performing new music with enthusiasm and flair.
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BBC Proms 2025: the ‘world’s greatest classical music festival’ knows what it is
A grounded season returns to the core proposition, making the music speak for itself.