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The Watchman #5: Live, Love, Die
Editorial Tolerance is possibly our Salvation "Marks & Spencer’s has apologised to a mother for causing her teenage daughter “distress” after she was asked if she needed help by a transgender employee in its bra section”, writes the Daily Telegraph and both the fact that M&S is said to
L'Itinéraire 2025! Opening concert
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L'Itinéraire: Opening Recital Sonata and Fantasy Gerard de Wit (origan); Église Saint Théodore de la Rochebeaucout, France, 02.08.2025 Bach Prelude and Fugue in F, BWV 559. Jesu, meine Freude, BWV Anh. 58. Pachelbel Hexachodum Apollinis, 1699: Chaconne in D. Telemann Fantasia No. 5
Suor Angelica and a Woman who Casts no Shadow: Proms 2025 continues its record of excellence
It used to be a fairly rare treat to hear Suor Angelica, but of late there have been a number of significant stagings. Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten is rarer still, at least on these shores; putting the two together was inspired. They intersect via dates of composition: Die Frau,
Proms 2025: A major Thorvaldsdottir UK premiere
PROMS 2025: Varèse, Thovaldsdottir, Ravel, Stravinsky Johannes Moser (cello); BBC Symphony Orchestra / Eva Ollikainen (conductor). Royal lbert Hall, 13.08.2025 Varèse Intégales (1924/25) Thorvaldsdottir Before We Fall (2024, UK premiere) Ravel Boléro (1928) Stravinsky Le sacre du primtemps (1911-13) Wha a tempting array of music: for 20th-Century nerds
L'Itinéraire (4): Les Délices de l'Âme
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L'Itinéraire: Les Délices de l'Âme Ensemble Amarine Belladiva (Zuzana Badáová, soprano; Michaela Ambrosi, transverse flute; Barbara Maria Willi, harpsichord). Rauzet Priory, Combiers, France, 02.08.2025 Michel de la Barre Suite IX: Sonata, L’inconnue, Prélude; Vivement. Jacquet de la Guerre Cantata, Suzanne. Rameau Pièces
Les Éléments
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025 (2): La Roche Baroque (2): Les Éléments Capella de la Torre / Katharina Bäuml (shawm / director). 9 pm, Église Saint Théodore de la Rochebeaucourt, Périgord, France, 01.08.2025 Air Anonymous O che nuovo miracoio. Chaconne. The dark is my delight Estebao da Brita Lucis Creator
Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra: new season
The following press release has been received from the Montevedi Choir & Orchestra: Following two landmark performances at the Edinburgh International Festival – including John Tavener’s monumental The Veil of the Temple and a programme of Bach, Handel and Purcell at Usher Hall (also to be performed at Aldeburgh and Greenwich)
Here We Are: Manchester Camerata's 5-day celebration
MANCHESTER CAMERATA ANNOUNCES: HERE WE ARE A FIVE DAY CELEBRATION OF MUSIC IN ALL 10 BOROUGHS OF GREATER MANCHESTER Between Wednesday 1 October and Sunday 5 October, Manchester Camerata is on the move, bringing its internationally acclaimed musicians to perform free concerts and pop-up performances in unexpected public spaces across
The Piano Music of George Walker
This is the first of two volumes of George Walker’s complete piano works; Alexandre Dossin is the beautifully sensitive pianist. Dossin has previously appeared on ax's as par of their complete Liszt piano music, in Kabalevsky, and in Bernstein. While the centrepiece of this disc, Volume One, is the
French Night at the Proms!
PROMS: French Night with the Orchestre National de France Randall Goosby (violin); Orchestre National de France / Cristian Măcelaru (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 23.07.2025 Ravel Rapsodie espagnole (1895, 1907/08) Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges Violin Concerto in G, Op. 8 (1776/7) Charlotte Sohy Danse mystique, Op
Preview: Edinburgh Festival 2025
Following on from our coverage of the Britten Pears 2025/26 season yesterday, here are details of this year's Edinburgh Festival: The Edinburgh International Festival opens on 1 August and features 1700 artists from 42 countries across a curated programme of music, theatre, dance and opera * Click here to read
Charpentier, Missa Assumpta est Maria (& La Fête du Reuil)
We have covered a number of concerts and releases of music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) on Classical Explorer: one overlap is that this concert of the Leçons de Ténèbres at Wigmore Hall began with the sinfonia from the present Missa Assumpta est Maria; we also covered a performance of the
Mäkelä's Berlioz
In terms of career trajectory, thee is no equalling Klaus Mäkelä. He collects principal positions with the World's major orchestras like others collect stamps. And yet, should we believe the hype? This release suggest not; and there have been warning signs for previous concerts, too ... There is such a thing
Yunchan Lim's epoch-making performance of Rach 3
Yuncham Lim cerainly made waves wt this performance: live at the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. He was 18.. Lim's debut studio album Chopin Étude was the subject of a post on Classical Explorer here. Dominic Fyfe, Label Director, Decca Classics, says: The creation of a recorded legacy on