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The Philharmonic marked this Yuletide season with a screening of Chris Columbus’s 1990 comedy, Home Alone, accompanied by John Williams’s Oscar-nominated score telling the story of eight-year-old Kevin McCallister, who defends himself and his home against a
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January 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
The Philharmonic marked this Yuletide season with a screening of Chris Columbus’s 1990 comedy, Home Alone, accompanied by John Williams’s Oscar-nominated score telling the story of eight-year-old Kevin McCallister, who defends himself and his home against a
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Glyndebourne is no stranger to Handel, nor to the Royal Albert Hall, with the company’s annual visit to the Proms.
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January 8, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Glyndebourne is no stranger to Handel, nor to the Royal Albert Hall, with the company’s annual visit to the Proms.
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Although nominally an opera seria like most of Handel’s other London operas of the 1720s and '30s, English National Opera's description of Partenope (1730) as a 'rom com' is closer to the mark.
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January 8, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Although nominally an opera seria like most of Handel’s other London operas of the 1720s and '30s, English National Opera's description of Partenope (1730) as a 'rom com' is closer to the mark.
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Back in 2013 Giovanni Antonini embarked on Haydn 2032, where, in time for the 300th anniversary of his birth, he would record with the two orchestras he is most associated with all of Haydn’s Symphonies and major choral works interspersed with pieces mainly by
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December 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Back in 2013 Giovanni Antonini embarked on Haydn 2032, where, in time for the 300th anniversary of his birth, he would record with the two orchestras he is most associated with all of Haydn’s Symphonies and major choral works interspersed with pieces mainly by
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Víkingur Ólafsson usually creates interesting programmes...this is very impressive Beethoven that I wouldn’t want to be without.
#Bach #Beethoven #Opus109 #Schubert #VíkingurÓlafssonon
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#Bach #Beethoven #Opus109 #Schubert #VíkingurÓlafssonon
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November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Víkingur Ólafsson usually creates interesting programmes...this is very impressive Beethoven that I wouldn’t want to be without.
#Bach #Beethoven #Opus109 #Schubert #VíkingurÓlafssonon
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#Bach #Beethoven #Opus109 #Schubert #VíkingurÓlafssonon
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Marking the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel’s birth, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is touring the composer’s piano music.
Over the course of three hours with two intermissions this recital was ravishing.
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Over the course of three hours with two intermissions this recital was ravishing.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Marking the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel’s birth, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is touring the composer’s piano music.
Over the course of three hours with two intermissions this recital was ravishing.
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Over the course of three hours with two intermissions this recital was ravishing.
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Leif Oves Andsnes and Bernard Chamayou are very different players and given the latter isn’t usually known for his emotional depth, vital in late Schubert, one could, perhaps be forgiven for approaching this album with some trepidation.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Leif Oves Andsnes and Bernard Chamayou are very different players and given the latter isn’t usually known for his emotional depth, vital in late Schubert, one could, perhaps be forgiven for approaching this album with some trepidation.
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Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian-born but resident in Germany for the last decades of her life, died in March of this year, so it is entirely fitting that a good many recent concerts have paid tribute to her many different styles of composition and extraordinary
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November 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian-born but resident in Germany for the last decades of her life, died in March of this year, so it is entirely fitting that a good many recent concerts have paid tribute to her many different styles of composition and extraordinary
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When reviewing a debut concerto appearance by a young shooting-star there is always a complicating factor. @LPOrchestra @southbankcentre #ConcertReview
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November 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
When reviewing a debut concerto appearance by a young shooting-star there is always a complicating factor. @LPOrchestra @southbankcentre #ConcertReview
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These masterworks, which were composed in 1915, feature orchestral palettes that concentrate on clarity and subtlety as opposed to full-blown Romantic heft and there is no sense of incongruity when Falstaff and Prince Hall burst on the scene...
#Rachmaninoff
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#Rachmaninoff
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November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
These masterworks, which were composed in 1915, feature orchestral palettes that concentrate on clarity and subtlety as opposed to full-blown Romantic heft and there is no sense of incongruity when Falstaff and Prince Hall burst on the scene...
#Rachmaninoff
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#Rachmaninoff
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The announcement was made today that Jenny Mollica, Chief Executive of English National Opera (ENO), has been appointed the new CEO of the Roundhouse. She will step down from her current role in summer 2026. @E_N_O #News
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November 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The announcement was made today that Jenny Mollica, Chief Executive of English National Opera (ENO), has been appointed the new CEO of the Roundhouse. She will step down from her current role in summer 2026. @E_N_O #News
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English National Opera (ENO) today celebrates the centenary of the birth of Sir Charles Mackerras by opening applications for the next ENO Mackerras Fellowship – the first to take place under the company’s new Music Director Designate, André de Ridder.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
English National Opera (ENO) today celebrates the centenary of the birth of Sir Charles Mackerras by opening applications for the next ENO Mackerras Fellowship – the first to take place under the company’s new Music Director Designate, André de Ridder.
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Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s company-commissioned 2023 world premiere opera receives nomination for Best Opera RecordingAlbum represents first release from the new Houston Grand Opera label, created with London Symphony Orchestra’s label LSO
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November 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s company-commissioned 2023 world premiere opera receives nomination for Best Opera RecordingAlbum represents first release from the new Houston Grand Opera label, created with London Symphony Orchestra’s label LSO
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It was with Mahler and the Philharmonia that the Royal Opera’s new music director first made a mark with London audiences.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
It was with Mahler and the Philharmonia that the Royal Opera’s new music director first made a mark with London audiences.
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Two rare one-Act operas featuring stories of jealous, murderous lust, offer some fascinating juxtapositions – Der Wald (premiered 1902), Ethel Smyth’s second opera, but a late essay in Wagnerian Romanticism if more sensational
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November 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Two rare one-Act operas featuring stories of jealous, murderous lust, offer some fascinating juxtapositions – Der Wald (premiered 1902), Ethel Smyth’s second opera, but a late essay in Wagnerian Romanticism if more sensational
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It's been quite a year for Mark-Anthony Turnage, with the widely acclaimed premiere of Festen at the Royal Opera House, and now the premiere of another opera, The Railway Children, his first work for Glyndebourne. Festen adapted a
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November 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
It's been quite a year for Mark-Anthony Turnage, with the widely acclaimed premiere of Festen at the Royal Opera House, and now the premiere of another opera, The Railway Children, his first work for Glyndebourne. Festen adapted a
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To-date Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic have recorded little of the German symphonic tradition so many associate with the orchestra, so this looked like an interesting addition to their catalogue.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
To-date Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic have recorded little of the German symphonic tradition so many associate with the orchestra, so this looked like an interesting addition to their catalogue.
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Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances have fared well on disc with classic performances from, amongst others, Kubelik, Sejna and Talich. #cdreview @CzechPhil @SirSimonRattle
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October 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances have fared well on disc with classic performances from, amongst others, Kubelik, Sejna and Talich. #cdreview @CzechPhil @SirSimonRattle
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As well as being a performer and critic, the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) wrote a considerable body of conventional diatonic music in a wide variety of idioms. #cdreview
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October 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
As well as being a performer and critic, the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) wrote a considerable body of conventional diatonic music in a wide variety of idioms. #cdreview
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Since 2024, when Jaap van Zweden ended his tenure as music director, the New York Philharmonic has been in a transitional period and will remain so until 2026, when Gustavo Dudamel assumes the directorship. #ConcertReview @nyphil
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October 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Since 2024, when Jaap van Zweden ended his tenure as music director, the New York Philharmonic has been in a transitional period and will remain so until 2026, when Gustavo Dudamel assumes the directorship. #ConcertReview @nyphil
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This set features pieces that represent Arnold Schoenberg at different points in his career. It starts with that orgy of late-romantic chromaticism Verklarte Nacht in the 1943 arrangement, scored for a minimum of 64 strings.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
This set features pieces that represent Arnold Schoenberg at different points in his career. It starts with that orgy of late-romantic chromaticism Verklarte Nacht in the 1943 arrangement, scored for a minimum of 64 strings.
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For his second program in his season as the Philharmonic’s Music and Artistic Director Designate, Gustavo Dudamel showcased two Symphonies separated by nearly two centuries.
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September 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
For his second program in his season as the Philharmonic’s Music and Artistic Director Designate, Gustavo Dudamel showcased two Symphonies separated by nearly two centuries.
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Some works emerge after an explosion of creative intensity in a matter of weeks; others sit and brood for some time before seeing the light of day.
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September 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Some works emerge after an explosion of creative intensity in a matter of weeks; others sit and brood for some time before seeing the light of day.
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Against the breathtaking backdrop of the Canadian Rockies in Banff National Park, the 15th Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC)
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September 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Against the breathtaking backdrop of the Canadian Rockies in Banff National Park, the 15th Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC)
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##PromReview@BBCProms #bbcproms
Perforce – because of the tube strikes – to listen to this concert live on Radio 3, rather than be present in the hall, having returned home after the earlier Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra concert.
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Perforce – because of the tube strikes – to listen to this concert live on Radio 3, rather than be present in the hall, having returned home after the earlier Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra concert.
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September 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
##PromReview@BBCProms #bbcproms
Perforce – because of the tube strikes – to listen to this concert live on Radio 3, rather than be present in the hall, having returned home after the earlier Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra concert.
www.classicalsource.com/prom/avi-avi...
Perforce – because of the tube strikes – to listen to this concert live on Radio 3, rather than be present in the hall, having returned home after the earlier Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra concert.
www.classicalsource.com/prom/avi-avi...