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English National Ballet’s Seemingly New-minted Nutcracker Intrigues and Enchants

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker (choreography by Wayne Eagling): Dancers of English National Ballet, Students from Tring Park School for the Performing Arts and Students from English National Ballet School, English National Ballet Philharmonic / Gavin Sutherland (conductor), London Coliseum, 13.12.2017. (J.O’D)

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English National Ballet’s artists as Snowflakes in Nutcracker © Laurent Liotardo

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The BBCSO Present a Fascinating and Rewarding Portrait of Esa-Pekka Salonen as Composer

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Total Immersion: Esa-Pekka Salonen: Various artists. Barbican Centre, and Milton Court Concert Hall, London, 10.12.2017. (CC)

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Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sakari Oramo (conductor) & BBCSO (c) Ellis O’Brien

This was an unmissable opportunity to experience the ‘other’ side of Esa-Pekka Salonen, so beloved of London audiences via his conducting activities with the Philharmonia Orchestra (most recently a wonderful Mahler Ninth). He did not raise a baton on this particular day, however: it was all about Salonen’s own music.

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