Colin Clarke

Piacenza’s Gianni Schicchi is an entertaining hour’s music and drama, to remind us of Puccini’s genius

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ItalyItaly Puccini, Gianni Schicchi: Soloists, Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana / Massimiliano Stefanelli (conductor). Performed at Teatro Municipale, Piacenza, Italy, and livestreamed (directed by Fabio Dolci) on 22.1.2021 and available to view on YouTube. (CC)

Teatro Municipale’s Gianni Schicchi

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Seong-Jin Cho plays 94 seconds of new Mozart for DG Stage on the composer’s 265th birthday

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AustriaAustria Seong-Jin Cho and Rolando Villazón present Mozart World Premiere and lecture recital: Seong-Jin Cho (piano), Rolando Villazón (presenter) in conversation with Ulrich Leisinger. Great Hall of the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation. Streamed on DG Stage, 27.2.2021. (CC)

Rolando Villazón, Seong-Jin Cho, & Ulrich Leisinger (c) ISM/Wolfgang Lienbacher

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Bask in the afterglow of Bach’s magnificent Christmas Oratorio thanks to Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort and Players

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Live from London Christmas – Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248: Soloists, Gabrieli Consort and Players / Paul McCreesh (conductor), plus chorales from Gabrieli ROAR.  St John’s, Smith Square, London. Livestreamed 25.12.2020 (and available to 6.1.2021). (CC)

Cantata VI – Soloists, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh (conductor)

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I Faglioni’s Live from London ‘Long, Long, Ago’ was a magnificent idea, magnificently realised

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Live from London Christmas: ‘Long, Long, Ago’ – Messe de Minuit: I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth (director). Performance at VOCES8 Centre, London, livestreamed on 24.12.2020. (CC)

Live from London Christmas – I Fagliolini

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Anúna’s A Whisper of Paradise showcases their individual, instantly recognisable, and clearly finely honed sound

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IrelandIreland Live from London Christmas – A Whisper of Paradise: Anúna. St Bartholomew’s Church, Dublin, recorded in December 2020 and livestreamed (for information click here) on 20.12.2020. (CC)

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Bravo to all concerned for AAM’s Barbican Messiah at this time of contemplation

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Handel, Messiah, HWV 56: Rowan Pierce (soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Ben Johnson (tenor), Ashley Riches (bass). Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music / Richard Egarr (director / harpsichord). Livestreamed from London’s Barbican Hall, 19.12.2020. (CC)

Richard Egarr directs the Choir and Orchestra of the AAM
(c) Mark Allan/Barbican

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A very different, and fabulous, Christmas concert from amarcord in Leipzig

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Live from London Christmas – Weihnacht: Christmas from Germany: amarcord (Wolfram Lattke, Robert Pohlers [tenors], Frank Ozimek [baritone], Daniel Knauft, Holger Krause [basses]) Nikolaikirche, Leipzig, 19.12.2020. (CC)

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