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London choir marks 10th year with new Christmas CD
One of the UK’s foremost recording choirs, The London Choral Sinfonia marks its 10th anniversary with On Christmas Night…
Malcolm Arnold Festival celebrates 20th year
’20 for 20’ is the theme of the 20th Malcolm Arnold Festival this year when performances of all 20 of the composer’s Concertos for solo instruments will take place…
Old World Cello Concerto CD launches in September
The premiere recording of a cello concerto written by British-Argentine Neo-romantic composer Polo Piatti will be launched on CD on 17 September. Recorded with the National Symphony Orchestra and featuring cellist Justin Pearson with John Andrews conducting at the...
Review: Opera North – Earth & Sky
A field of butterflies on the Pennine Moors, ethereal poetry and fascinating music in your ears as you explore the wild landscape above Haworth in West Yorkshire…
New classical music festival launched in Wiltshire
A new ‘classical and cross-genre’ annual music festival has been launched in Wiltshire by conductor Hilary Davan Wetton and arts manager Julia Hudson…
THE SOUND OF HIDDEN MUSIC: Songs of Hubert Parry
n the notes which accompany this issue, the late Paula Fan, who accompanies these songs by Parry, makes the point that the composer’s reputation would appear to rest on a small group of works from what was a prodigious output…
LUCY WALKER: Choral Works
Lucy Walker is a young composer specialising in choral music and her work has been commended by no less an authority than Bob Chilcott…
THE LILY OF KILLARNEY
The works which give this issue its title give an indication of just how popular the operas were in the mid-nineteenth century…
THE SPIRIT OF LOVE: Chamber Music by Ailsa Dixon
The story of Ailsa Dixon is, sadly, not an unusual one. A composer of great promise, who happened to be a woman, had to be content with a scant number of performances during her most fertile period of composition…
Seeking that one elusive record!
I was very interested in the discussion on CD and vinyl collections. The member who asked for advice on what to do with CDs also mentioned the ridiculous prices asked for LPs…