Earthcycle: Orchestra of the Swan
The Stratford-upon-Avon based ensemble Orchestra of the Swan is one of the most inventive groups around in the UK today – this extends from their programming to their use of multimedia to the subjects they […]
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Benjamin Grosvenor at the Wigmore: Brett Dean, Bach, Brahms
Bach – Prelude in E minor, BWV 955a (transcribed Siloti) Brett Dean – Hommage à Bach (2010): Prélude; Hommage à Kurtág (2011); Music for Drakenstein – Two Etudes (2018, world première); Hommage à Janáček (2009); Hommage à Lutosławski (2017); Hommage à Bach (2010): Chorale; Faustian Pact (Hommage à Liszt) (2023, UK premiere) Brahms – Klavierstücke, […]
Handel’s Ariadne: the London Handel Festival’s “Arianna in Creta”
Handel’s Arianna: An unforgettable close to the London Handel Festival’s ‘Spring Awakenings’ festival This is not the London Handel Festival’s first stab at Handel’s unjustly neglected opera, Arianna in Creta; it was previously staged […]
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