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Holst 150, complete Shostakovich quartets, Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer: Lichfield Festival 2024
The Hub at St Mary's - Brodsky Quartet at Lichfield Festival, July 2023 (Photo: Tyler Whiting)The Lichfield Festival returns for ten days of classical, folk, world, jazz, cabaret and popular music, theatre, dance and the written word from 4 to 14 July 2024. The 2024 festival opens with Rachel Podger (violin) and her ensemble Brecon Baroque in Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. A 150th anniversary celebration of Gustav Holst includes Egdon Heath from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Ryan Bancroft (along with Brahms and Elgar's Cello Concerto) and the Carice Singers’ Stargazers programme includes Holst's The Evening Watch. And there will be Holst arrangements from BBC Folk Musician of the Year Will Pound and percussionist Delia Stevens. Pianist Danny Driver plays two recitals, closing the Festival with candle-lit Bach in the Cathedral. Other chamber music highlights are the complete Shostakovich quartets from Brodsky Quartet spread over a single weekend, Oz Clarke and Armonico Consort’s […]
2023-12-18 08:39:00
Pandora's Box: great tunes, a neat moral, energetic performances, London Youth Opera premieres Stuart Hancock & Donald Sturrock's new opera
[…] es Petrus for four choirs - record reviewWe need to shift the focus from the artist's 'I' to the collective 'We': composer Samuel Andreyev on his recent disc, In Glow of Like Seclusion - interviewDichterliebe Reimagined: Koen van Stade & Neal Peres Da Costa bring creative freedom & musical rhetoric to bear on Schumann's song cycle - record reviewA lifetime's experience: John Nelson finally records Messiah in a finely engaged performance, with a fantastic quartet of soloists - record reviewThe Goldberg Variations Reimagined: Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque at Kings Place - concert reviewBach's Christmas Oratorio from Masaaki Suzuki and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - concert reviewHome
2023-12-16 09:42:00
A sense of dramatic narrative: Wild Arts in Handel's Messiah at The Art Workers' Guild
[…] es Petrus for four choirs - record reviewWe need to shift the focus from the artist's 'I' to the collective 'We': composer Samuel Andreyev on his recent disc, In Glow of Like Seclusion - interviewDichterliebe Reimagined: Koen van Stade & Neal Peres Da Costa bring creative freedom & musical rhetoric to bear on Schumann's song cycle - record reviewA lifetime's experience: John Nelson finally records Messiah in a finely engaged performance, with a fantastic quartet of soloists - record reviewThe Goldberg Variations Reimagined: Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque at Kings Place - concert reviewBach's Christmas Oratorio from Masaaki Suzuki and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - concert reviewOrgan Re-born! a mini-concert series mounted in celebration of the return and rebirth of Norwich Cathedral’s organ - concert reviewHome
2023-12-15 08:34:00
A remarkable cultural synthesis: Vache Baroque & La Vaghezza bring a lovely sense of dialogue to their celebrations of Salmone Rossi's Hebrew-texted The Songs of Solomon
[…] es Petrus for four choirs - record reviewWe need to shift the focus from the artist's 'I' to the collective 'We': composer Samuel Andreyev on his recent disc, In Glow of Like Seclusion - interviewDichterliebe Reimagined: Koen van Stade & Neal Peres Da Costa bring creative freedom & musical rhetoric to bear on Schumann's song cycle - record reviewA lifetime's experience: John Nelson finally records Messiah in a finely engaged performance, with a fantastic quartet of soloists - record reviewThe Goldberg Variations Reimagined: Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque at Kings Place - concert reviewBach's Christmas Oratorio from Masaaki Suzuki and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - concert reviewOrgan Re-born! a mini-concert series mounted in celebration of the return and rebirth of Norwich Cathedral’s organ - concert reviewThe Hidden Light: composer Joanna Marsh on her triptych of pieces for the choir of St John's College, Cambridge - interviewHome
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