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  • Proms 2024
    Prom 15: The Swingles/BBCPhil/Collon – a bicycle wheel, birds and beatboxing

  • Cloud Messenger, Three choirs festival premieres, Worcester

    Review
    Three Choirs Festival – 300-year-old festival celebrates the past and looks to the future

    The GBSR duo’s two concerts were particular highlights, while mezzo Beth Taylor was a standout in Holst’s choral ode The Cloud Messenger, programmed to celebrate his 150th anniversary
  • Benjamin Grosvenor, press photo, credit Andrej Grilc

    Proms 2024
    ‘Few are mad enough to take it on’ – Benjamin Grosvenor on Busoni’s Piano Concerto

    There’s an invisible choir, text from a Danish play about Aladdin, and it’s inspired by classical architecture, nature and quasi-Egyptian iconography – no wonder Busoni’s Piano Concerto is rarely performed. Now the colossus is coming to the Proms
  • vision quartet.

    Proms Newport review – fresh, direct accounts of Bloch and Dvořák

  • Prom 21 John Wilson Sinfonia of London (15)

    Prom 21: John Wilson/Sinfonia of London review – sharp-tailored fanfare leads a million-dollar parade of US music

  • La Pasión Según San Marcos.

    La Pasión Según San Marcos review – Golijov’s riot of rhythm and colour gets Edinburgh off to a thrilling start

  • Lawrence Power performs Cassandra Miller’s concerto I Cannot Love Without Trembling.

    Prom 16: BBC Philharmonic/Storgårds review – Shostakovich’s impact is blunted

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  • The Past and I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy.

    The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy review – the writer’s poetry gets a sensuous second life in music

  • Jane Stanley, pictured during recording sessions for Cerulean Orbits

    Jane Stanley: Cerulean Orbits album review – music with an ear for texture and economy

  • Beautifully embellished melodies … Aigul Akhmetshina.

    Aigul Akhmetshina: Aigul album review – mezzo from Bashkortostan is an insouciant star

  • Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

    Holmès: Symphonic Poems album review – Francis underscores Wagner’s influence on this rediscovered female composer

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People

  • Jakub Jozef Orlinski at Warner Music Uk, South Kensington, London, for Q&A New Review, 26/06/2024. Sophia Evans for The Observer

    Q&A
    Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński: ‘Breakdancing feeds into my performances – music dictates the way you move on stage’

  • Roger Wright, CEO of Britten Pears Arts

    ‘I’ve always been a glass half full person’
    Aldeburgh festival’s outgoing CEO Roger Wright

  • Jerrold Northrop Moore began his Elgar researches as a student by interviewing people who had known the composer.

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    Jerrold Northrop Moore

  • Actor and writer Paterson Joseph

    ‘I was told I was stupid’
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