Category: Review
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Nicola Benedetti plays Baroque at Battersea Arts Centre
A concert format that works, introduced by a practitioner who knows her game and wants others to love it. CDs in the foyer folks.
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Up close and musical at Fidelio Orchestra Cafe
Up Close and Musical runs until 15 August at the Fidelio Orchestra Cafe in Clerkenwell, London
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Verbier Festival opens with Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano and Trumpet and Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony
Intimate revealing visuals, a rich sound mix and some utterly brilliant musicians. A must-watch.
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Composer Charles Armirkhanian on the Spitalfields Festival Podcast
Armirkhanian’s Spitalfields Festival premiere ‘Ratchet Attach It’, plus dropping acid.
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Classical Mixtape at Cheltenham Music Festival
A gently curated event that deployed voices and instruments sympathetically.
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LPO Debut sounds 2021: new musical perspectives on the period of isolation
Five new composers had their newest works premiered by the London Philharmonic Orchestra on Wednesday this week at the LPO’s Debut Sounds concert.
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Stephanie Childress, Isata Kanneh-Mason and London Mozart Players at Cadogan Hall
Isata Kanneh-Mason played with verve throughout the demanding Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1, creating a tender melodic line in the second movement.
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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Domingo Hindoyan premiere Dani Howard’s Trombone Concerto
Taut, well-organised and slick. And that was just getting into the auditorium.
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Music-related Queens Birthday Honours 2021 for pianist Imogen Cooper, composer Huw Watkins and saxophonist Jess Gillam
Music-related Queens Birthday Honours 2021 for pianist Imogen Cooper, composer Huw Watkins and saxophonist Jess Gillam
