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Rob Barnett

Tragedy, fairy-tales and childhood visions from Yorkshire’s Todmorden Orchestra

09/12/201918/11/2019 by Rob Barnett

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Malcolm Arnold, Stravinsky, Mahler: Thérèse Wincent (soprano), Todmorden Orchestra / Nicholas Concannon Hodges (conductor). Todmorden Town Hall, Calderdale, 16.11.2019. (RBa)

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Radius Opera premieres Benjamin’s The Fire of Olympus in Burnley

29/09/201916/09/2019 by Rob Barnett

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Tim Benjamin’s The Fire of Olympus (or, On Sticking It To The Man): Soloists and Orchestra (harpsichord: Alex Robinson) of Radius Opera / Ellie Slorach (conductor). Burnley Mechanics, Manchester Road, Burnley, 14.9.2019 (RBa)

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Todmorden Orchestra Ebullient in Strauss and Rachmaninoff

20/07/201903/07/2019 by Rob Barnett

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Stravinsky, R. Strauss, Rachmaninoff: Paula Sides (soprano), Todmorden Orchestra / Nicholas Concannon Hodges (conductor). Todmorden Town Hall, Calderdale, 29.6.2019. (RBa)

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Gritty Bax and Lush Harty at British Music Society Anniversary Concert

20/07/201923/06/2019 by Rob Barnett

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Carwithen, Hurd, Harty, Alwyn, Bridge, Bax: Kirstin Sharpin (soprano), Ealing Symphony Orchestra / John Gibbons (conductor). British Music Society 40th Anniversary Concert, St John’s Smith Square, London, 22.6.2019. (RBa)

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BBC Phil Plays British Contemporary and Czech 19th and 20th Century Music

15/07/201921/06/2019 by Rob Barnett

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Matthews, Alma Mahler, Janáček, Dvořák, Martinů: Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), BBC Philharmonic / Jac ‎van Steen (conductor). BBC Philharmonic Studio, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, 19.6.2019. (RBa)

Jac van Steen

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No Crowd-Pleasers from the BBC Phil at Salford Quays

29/06/201907/06/2019 by Rob Barnett

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Shostakovich, Prokofiev: Aleksey ‎ ‎Semenenko (violin), BBC Philharmonic / Jac ‎van Steen (conductor). BBC Philharmonic Studio, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, 5.6.2019. (RBa)

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2019 English Music Festival Opens in Dorchester on Thames

19/06/201926/05/2019 by Rob Barnett

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom 2019 English Music Festival – Berners, Arnold, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Delius, Milford: Sergey Levitin (violin), BBC Concert Orchestra / Martin Yates (conductor). The English Music Festival, Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester on Thames, 24.5.2019. (RBa)

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Christian Tetzlaff Gives His All in Elgar’s Violin Concerto

08/06/201919/05/2019 by Rob Barnett

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Elgar, Rachmaninoff: Christian Tetzlaff (violin), BBC Philharmonic / John Storgårds (conductor). Bridgewater Hall Manchester, 18.5.2019. (RBa)

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