Lloyd’s Choir premieres Jacques Cohen’s new choral work on 27 March at St Giles Cripplegate Church

LLOYD’S CHOIR SPRING 2025 CONCERT WILL FEATURE PREMIERE OF NEW WORK BY JACQUES COHEN, COMMEMORATING THE SINKING OF HMT LANCASTRIA DURING WORLD WAR II

Lloyd’s Choir Spring Concert 27 March 2025, 7pm – St Giles Cripplegate Church, Fore Street, London, EC2Y 8DA

Lloyd’s Choir
Cohen Ensemble
Jacques Cohen (conductor and music director)

Mendelssohn – Psalm 114
Jacques Cohen – ‘Lancastria’
Rossini – Stabat Mater

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Puzzling BBC presentations on Holocaust Memorial Day 2025

Agnes Kory considers the BBC’s programming on Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 Full credit to the BBC for giving its all to commemorate the International Holocaust Memorial Day which on 27th January this year marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Of the many BBC programmes, I attended two and watched one on BBC2. … Read more

Teodor Doré’s Rachmaninoff Variations album is out soon; live premiere New York (29 Jan) and London concert (8 March)

Crimean-Born Pianist And Composer To Debut ‘Rachmaninoff Variations’ In New York And London – Exploring Historical Parallels Through Innovative Reworkings Of The Great Master

Teodor Doré is proud to present his new project entitled Rachmaninoff Variations, forthcoming on the DAG Klassical label in spring of 2025. There will be a live premiere in New York City on January 29th at Carnegie’s Hall’s Weill Recital Rooms, and a later concert with The London City Philharmonic will take place on 8th March at Holy Trinity Church in Chelsea’s Sloane Square.

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(P)review of the filmed version of Donmar Warehouse’s Macbeth coming to a cinema near you soon

United KingdomUnited Kingdom William Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Filmed live (directed by Tim Van Someren) at London’s Donmar Warehouse in 2023 and released in cinemas across the UK, US, Australia and selected international territories from 5th February 2025. (JPr)

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Len Mullenger looks back at 30 years of MusicWeb International (founded in 1995)

30 years of MusicWeb International by Len Mullenger

2025 is the year in which MusicWeb achieves a significant milestone; it is thirty years ago that I founded the site, way back in 1995.

I hope I will be forgiven for blowing my own – and MusicWeb’s – trumpet. Over these thirty years we have diligently presented reviews of extremely high quality, unmatched in quantity by any other site. We are the number one leading site, with 61,000 CD reviews to date and multitudes of articles, and we are immensely proud of all that. I am immensely grateful to all the contributors to MusicWeb, both past and current, whose efforts have enabled us to achieve all this. My particular thanks go to my management team of David Barker, Ralph Moore, John Quinn and Jonathan Woolf whose strong support I rely so much on.

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