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Randall Goosby: Bruch and Price Violin Concertos review – Florence Price has her ideal champion
Goosby and Nézet-Séguin bring Price’s storytelling to life and embrace the romance of Bruch

Erica Jeal

25, May, 2023 @2:00 PM

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LSO/Tilson Thomas/Tetzlaff review – Brahms soars and glows
In an all Brahms programme, Christian Tetzlaff brought momentum and shape to the Violin Concerto, and Tilson Thomas made every note glow

Erica Jeal

22, May, 2023 @12:15 PM

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Horns, jigs and hosannas: your guide to Charles’s coronation composers
From the woman who soundtracked Lesbian Vampire Killers to the creator of musical cryptograms, the king has chosen an eclectic bunch. So what are we likely to hear?

Erica Jeal

05, May, 2023 @4:00 PM

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LPO/Rachlin/Mäkelä review – a powerful performance of Shostakovich, Mahler and Larcher
Violinist Julian Rachlin delivered a knockout concerto, while 27-year-old Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä drove the orchestra hard and fast

Erica Jeal

30, Apr, 2023 @1:45 PM

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Il Proscritto review – Opera Rara unearth an uneven gem
Saverio Mercadante’s opera of a love triangle in 17th-century Scotland is conducted with conviction by Carlo Rizzi and its complex heroine is beautifully sung by Irene Roberts

Erica Jeal

27, Apr, 2023 @2:00 PM

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Vox Urbane review – new choir impresses and inspires in a scuffed corner of Peckham
The launch concert of this diverse 16-strong lineup moved from Philip Glass to Meredith Monk

Erica Jeal

17, Apr, 2023 @12:13 PM

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‘One of the most important works of our time’ – inside Innocence, Kaija Saariaho’s school-shooting opera
Sung in nine languages, with music by one of the world’s most acclaimed composers, Innocence comes to the UK this month. The team behind it reveal how it drew on everything from The Last Supper to Finnish cowherding music

Erica Jeal

11, Apr, 2023 @4:22 PM

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Maconchy, Lutyens and Wallen: Works for Piano and Orchestra review | Erica Jeal's classical album of the week
The BBC Concert Orchestra bounce off the coiled spring of Martin Jones’s piano playing as moments of reflective beauty shine through in previously unrecorded works

Erica Jeal

30, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM

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‘I fear we are losing a whole generation of talent’: ENO head hits back at the ‘leave London’ ultimatum
As she stages a new production of The Dead City, Korngold’s wild opera banned by the Nazis, English National Opera’s artistic director Annilese Miskimmon talks about the company’s strong present and uncertain future

Erica Jeal

13, Mar, 2023 @6:00 AM

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Puccini: Turandot review | Classical CD of the week
Puccini’s original score was ‘finished’ by Franco Alfano, whose additions are heard uncut on this dramatic all-star recording

Erica Jeal

09, Mar, 2023 @3:00 PM

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Lucrezia Borgia review – dark and atmospheric Donizetti from English Touring Opera
Eloise Lally straightforwardly tells this convoluted story of concealed identity ending in a mass poisoning

Erica Jeal

05, Mar, 2023 @2:50 PM

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Quartet by Leah Broad review – Britain’s great female composers
A welcome celebration of four brilliant and colourful contributors to the 20th-century classical scene

Erica Jeal

01, Mar, 2023 @12:00 PM

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