First public performance of Imogen Holst’s Violin Concert at Holborn’s St Andrew’s Church on 24 November

Discovery of a lost British concerto – Violinist Midori Komachi’s journey from the archives to a London performance and broadcasts in Tokyo

Midori Komachi (©Shizuki Kumanda) Imogen Holst (© George C. Beresford)

Based between London and Tokyo, violinist, writer and composer, Midori Komachi, is reviving a neglected British violin concerto by Imogen Holst with a performance in London and live broadcast and lecture recital in Japan, as part of her latest project bridging UK and Japanese cultures through music. As soloist, Komachi will give the First Public Performance with the Elgar Sinfonia conducted by Adrian Brown at St Andrew’s Church, Holborn, London at 16:30, Sunday 24 November 2024.

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Longborough Festival Opera’s new Wagner Club

Longborough Festival Opera is proud to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Anthony Negus as its esteemed Music Director in 2025 by announcing the launch of the Longborough Wagner Club

Anthony Negus conducts Die Walküre © Matthew Williams-Ellis

Anthony Negus will be the Club’s Founder President, and its distinguished ambassadors include Stephen Fry, Sir John TomlinsonSusan Bullock CBE and Alan Rusbridger.

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Celebrating Charles Ives with Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now

United StatesUnited States ‘Charles Ives’s America’: William Sharp (baritone), Donald Berman (piano), J. Peter Burkholder (host), The Orchestra Now / Leon Botstein (conductor). Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 17.11.2024. (RP)

Leon Botstein conducts The Orchestra Now © Matt Dine

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Calidore Quartet and Quartet Integra converge on Mendelssohn and Korngold in Los Angeles

United StatesUnited States Various: Calidore String Quartet (Jeffrey Myers, Ryan Meehan [violins], Jeremy Berry [viola], Estelle Choi [cello]) and Quartet Integra (Kyoka Misawa, Rintaro Kikuno [violins], Itsuki Yamamoto [viola], Ye Un Park, [cello]). Thayer Hall, The Colburn School, Los Angeles. 15.11.2024. (LV)

Sketches of the Calidore Quartet and the Quartet Integra © Larisa Pilinsky.

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At The Lowry, Opera North’s captivating Ruddigore exceeded already high expectations

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Opera North 2024 [2] – Gilbert & Sullivan, Ruddigore (or The Witch’s Curse): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North / Anthony Kraus (conductor). Lyric Theatre, The Lowry, The Quays, Salford, 14.11.2024. (MC)

Dominic Sedgwick (Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd) and Steven Page (Sir Roderic Murgatroyd) © Richard H Smith

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