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Manchester Camerata Appeals to a Younger Audience with an Entertaining Concert

14/10/201529/09/2015 by Michael Cookson
Gabor Takacs-Nagy and Manchester Camerata
Gabor Takács-Nagy and Manchester Camerata (c) Manchester Camerata

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Rossini, Chabrier, Rodrigo, Lennon/McCartney, Beethoven: Craig Ogden (guitar), Manchester Camerata/Gabor Takács-Nagy  (conductor), Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 26.9.2015. (MC)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Manchester, Michael Cookson

England and France Meet in a Double Musical Celebration

14/10/201528/09/2015 by RJones

Holst, Vaughan Williams, Howells, Ravel: The Bridge Quartet [Colin Twigg, Catherine Schofield (violins), Michael Schofield (viola), Lucy Wilding (cello)], All Saints’ Church, Cheltenham, 26.9.2015. (RJ)

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A Fine Bruckner 8 – But Not As You Might Know It

14/10/201528/09/2015 by John Rhodes

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bruckner: Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi (conductor) , Zurich Opera, Zurich. 27.9.15 (JR)

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Original version, 1887)

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Magnificent Playing from Strings in BBC Scottish Orchestra’s Mahler 10

14/10/201528/09/2015 by Simon Thompson

United KingdomUnited Kingdom   Glazunov, Mahler: James Ehnes (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 27.9.15 (SRT)

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Fine Orchestral Playing under Wigglesworth in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth

14/10/201528/09/2015 by Jim Pritchard

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Mark Wigglesworth (conductor), London Coliseum, London. 26.9.2015 (JPr)

(c) Clive Barda
ENO’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk John Daszak and Patricia Racette
(c) Clive Barda

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The Cuarteto Casals Prompt Fresh Thoughts about Familiar Music

29/09/201527/09/2015 by Claire Seymour

United KingdomUnited Kingdom   Haydn, Mozart, Schubert: Cuarteto Casals [Vera Martínez-Mehner & Abel Tomás (violins), Jonathan Brown (viola), Arnau Tomàs (cello)], Wigmore Hall London, 25.9.2015 (CS)

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An Impressive Mahler Third Launches the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s 2015/16 Season

29/09/201527/09/2015 by Mark Berry

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Mahler: Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Trinity Boys Choir (chorus master: David Swinson), BBC Symphony Chorus (chorus master: Stephen Jackson), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 24.9.2015 (MB)

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Zurich Opera’s Wozzeck  ̶  Stark, Brutal, Transcendent

29/09/201527/09/2015 by Rick Perdian

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Berg: Wozzeck, Soloists, Chorus and Children’s Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi (conductor), Zurich Opera, 25.09.2015 (RP)
Zurich_Wozzeck

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  • Atmospheric and engaging exploration of the language of birds at LSO St Luke’s (09/09/2026) __________________________________
  • The Tempest from Vache Baroque and Out of Chaos was a true company effort (09/09/2026) __________________________________
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