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Doric Quartet Enthral Audience with Bartók and Beethoven

15/07/201608/07/2016 by RJones

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Haydn, Bartók, Beethoven: Doric Quartet [Alex Reddington, Jonathan Stone (violins), Hélène Clément (viola), John Myerscough (cello)], Cheltenham Music Festival, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, 7.7.2016. (RJ)

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Pascal and Ami Rogé Demonstrate Satie’s Abiding Influence on French Music

15/07/201607/07/2016 by RJones

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Satie, Debussy, Ravel. Milhaud, Tailleferre, Durey, Auric, Honegger, Poulenc: Pascal and Ami Rogé (piano), Cheltenham Music Festival, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, 6.7.2016. (RJ)

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Pure Gold from Nicola Benedetti in Cheltenham

07/07/201607/07/2016 by JQuinn

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Cheltenham Music Festival: Elgar, Korngold, Rachmaninov – Nicola Benedetti (violin): Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko (conductor), Cheltenham Town Hall, 6.7.2016. (JQ)

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ETO Take Their Atmospheric Don Giovanni Around the Country

21/04/201616/04/2016 by RJones

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English Touring Opera / John Andrews (conductor), Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, 14.4.2016. (RJ)

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ETO’s Don Giovanni (c) Richard Hubert Smith

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Dante Heroine Comes Alive in English Touring Opera’s Pia de’ Tolomei

19/04/201614/04/2016 by RJones

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Donizetti, Pia de’ Tolomei (1837): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English Touring Opera / John Andrews (conductor), Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham. 12.4.2016. (RJ)

London, UK. 08.03.2016. English Touring Opera presents the rarely performed "Pia de' Tolomei", by Gaetano Donizetti, in its UK stage premiere, at the Hackney Empire. Libretto by Salvadore Cammadano. Directed by James Conway, with set & costume design by Loren Elstein and lighting design by Guy Hoare. Picture shows: The chorus. Photograph © Jane Hobson.
ETO’s Pia de’ Tolomei © Jane Hobson

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National Youth Wind Orchestra Take Audience’s Breath Away

08/04/201603/04/2016 by RJones

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Ginastera, Yu-Chou Chen, Bernstein, Mower, Kozhevnikov, Fletcher, Márquez: Paul Edmund-Davies (flute), National Youth Wind Orchestras / Rodney Winther (conductor), Town Hall, Cheltenham 2.4.2016. (RJ)

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Wells Virtuosi Show their Mettle in an Anglo-Czech Concert

09/03/201604/03/2016 by RJones

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Elgar, Finzi, Holst, Suk, Dvořák: Wells Virtuosi / Matthew Souter (conductor), Pittville Pump Room. Cheltenham, 3.3.2016. (RJ)

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Scintillating Celebration of Contemporary Clarinet Music from James Noble and Simon Callaghan

27/02/201620/02/2016 by RJones

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Roxburgh, Ireland, Anderson, Finzi, Gregson, Poulenc: James Noble (clarinet), Simon Callaghan (piano), Cheltenham Contemporary Concerts, Prince Michael Hall, Cheltenham, 16.2.2016. (RJ)

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