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The Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili will play the Sibelius concerto at the opening concert of the BBC Proms series tonight. Ariane Todes asks her the unanswerable question: So did you ever think you might give […]
Pope canonizes Poulenc’s Carmelites
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A Road Less Travelled: in advance of its London premiere, Alec Roth discusses his 2017 song cycle to poems by Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas by Frederick Henry Evansbromide print, circa 1904NPG P476 © National Portrait Gallery, London On 17 September 2024, St Martin-in-the-Fields opens its 2024/25 season with the London premiere of Alec Roth’s song cycle A […]
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