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Cardiff

Charm and Grace Abound in Mid-Wales Opera’s Acis and Galatea

18/02/201411/02/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Handel, Acis and Galatea (production premiere): Soloists, Chorus and Brecon Baroque / Nicholas Cleobury (conductor) Richard Burton Theatre, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 30.1.2014 (GPu)

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Well Designed and Purposeful Recital from Osborne

18/02/201410/02/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Prokofiev, Ravel, Rachmaninov: Steven Osborne(piano), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 26.1.2014 (GPu)

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Sondergård Captures Unfiltered Emotional Impact of Mahler’s Ninth

18/02/201410/02/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mahler. BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thomas Sondergård (conductor). St. David’s Hall, Cardiff. 7.2.2014 (PCG)

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Modern Danish Music with a Touch of Humour

03/02/201429/01/2014 by Stan

Ruders, Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Thomas Søndergård (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff. 28.1.2014 (PCG)

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‘Sorrow was there made fair’: An All Dowland Programme.

29/01/201428/01/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Dowland: Ian Bostridge (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Fretwork (Liam Byrne, Asako Morikawa, Reiko Ichise, Richard Tunnicliffe, Richard Boothby, viols), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff,  23.01.14. (GPr)

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Convincing Performance of Honegger’s Symphonie liturgique

29/01/201426/01/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Honegger, Rachmaninov, Fauré: Yevgeny Sudbin* (piano), Elin Manahan Thomas** (soprano), Roderick Williams** (baritone), BBC National Chorus** and Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (conductor). St. David’s Hall, Cardiff. 24.1.2014 (PCG)

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Emma Kirkby Reveals the Poetry of Song in a Fine Recital

29/01/201423/01/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Haydn, Schubert: Emma Kirkby (soprano), Howard Williams (fortepiano), Reardon Smith Theatre, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 19.01.14.(GP)

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Hoddinott Hall Celebrates its Fifth Anniversary with a Mixed Programme

29/01/201422/01/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Hoddinott, Mozart, Holt, Parry, Bernstein: Rosemary Joshua* (soprano), BBC National Orchestra and Chorus+ of Wales/Grant Llewellyn (conductor), Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 21.1.2014 (PCG)

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