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Thaxted programming at the highest level: Nicky Spence and Dylan Perez’s My Father’s Son

27/06/202525/06/2025 by Colin Clarke

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Thaxted Music Festival 2025 [1] – My Father’s Son: Nicky Spence (tenor), Dylan Perez (piano). Thaxted Parish Church, Essex, 22.6.2025. (CC)

Nicky Spence (tenor) and Dylan Perez (piano)

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Choral works by Brahms and Stravinsky from BBC NOW in Cardiff

23/06/2025 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brahms, Stravinsky: BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales / Ryan Bancroft (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 20.6.2025. (PCG)

Ryan Bancroft

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Fabulous Mozartists’s Wigmore Hall concert of repertoire both little-known and really rather unknown

20/06/2025 by Colin Clarke

United KingdomUnited Kingdom MOZART250 – Rachel Podger plays Mozart: Rachel Podger (violin), The Mozartists / Ian Page (conductor). Wigmore Hall, London, 18.6.2024. (CC)

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Bach and Shostakovich powerfully paired by Chloё Hanslip and Danny Driver at the Turner Sims 

20/06/2025 by Chris Kettle

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Bach, Shostakovich: Chloё Hanslip (violin), Danny Driver (piano). Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, 10.6.2025. (CK)

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Thomas Søndergård brings the concert season in Glasgow to a thrillingly memorable climax

20/06/202519/06/2025 by Gregor Tassie

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Shostakovich: Daniel Müller-Schott (cellist), Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Thomas Søndergård (conductor). Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 7.6.2025. (GT)

Daniel Müller-Schott

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RCMF 2025: An epic week comes to an end 

17/06/2025 by Chris Kettle

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Romsey Chamber Music Festival 2025 [4] – Various: Romsey URC Church, 7-8.6.2025. (CK)

Romsey Youth Choir at the RCMF 2025

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More kudos for Laura Rickard and her RCMF 2025 concert planning

14/06/2025 by Chris Kettle

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Romsey Chamber Music Festival 2025 [3] – Various: Romsey URC Church, 6.6.2025. (CK)

Junyan Chen (piano), Emma Roijackers (violin), Lydia Hillerudh (cello) and Gerbrich Meijer (clarinet) ©  Chen

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The Belcea Quartet’s interesting and satisfying Wigmore Hall Schoenberg and Beethoven pairing

12/06/2025 by Mark Berry

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Schoenberg and Beethoven: Belcea Quartet (Corina Belcea, Suyeon Kang [violins], Krysztof Chorzelski [viola], Antoine Lederlin [cello]). Wigmore Hall, London, 11.6.2025. (MB)

Belcea Quartet © Maurice Haas

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