19th International Malcolm Festival on Saturday 19 October 2024

The 19th International Malcolm Arnold Festival 2024

Director, Paul Harris

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Saturday 19 October – Live in Northampton

11:00 St Peter’s Church, Mare Fair, Northampton NN1 1SW
14:30 All Saints Church, George Row, Northampton NN1 1DF
18:00 Guildhall, St Giles’ Square, Northampton NN1 1DE

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Gramophone’s Label of the Year 2024 Opera Rara returns to the Wigmore Hall on 2 November

OPERA RARA

On Saturday 2 November, Opera Rara return to Wigmore Hall for its third ‘Donizetti & Friends’ recital. Following a week recording together in the studio, Rosa Feola will be accompanied by Carlo Rizzi at the piano.

Gramophone’s Label of the Year 2024 – On 2 October Opera Rara was announced as Gramophone’s Label of the Year 2024. Previous winners in this category include BIS, Deutsche Grammophon, Alpha Classics, Pentatone and Harmonia Mundi.

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‘Phenomenal Women’: a classic Chineke! musical feast

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Alberga, A Coleridge-Taylor, Coleman, Price: Meera Maharaj (flute), Myfanwy Price (oboe), Stephanie Yim (clarinet), Daria Phillips (bassoon), Nivanthi Karunaratne (horn), Chineke! Orchestra / Tatiana Pėrez (conductor). Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 9.10.2024. (CK)

Stephanie Yim (clarinet) © Chuko Cribb

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An imbalanced rendering of Mahler’s Symphony No.8 in Boston

United StatesUnited States Mahler, Symphony No.8: Soloists, Tanglewood Festival Chorus (conductor: James Burton), Boys of the Saint Paul’s Choir School (music director: Brandon Straub), Boston Symphony Orchestra / Andris Nelsons (conductor). Symphony Hall, Boston, 6.10.2024. (ES-S)

Andris Nelsons conducts Mahler Symphony No. 8 with the BSO © Winslow Townson

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