Sofi Jeannin conducts a challenging, rewarding, superbly performed Three Choirs Festival concert

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Three Choirs Festival [4] – Arakelyan, Britten/Lapwood, Poulenc, Weir: Mark Padmore (tenor), Charles Gibbs (narrator), Anna Lapwood, Nicholas Freestone (organ), BBC Singers, Philharmonia Orchestra Ensemble / Sofi Jeannin (conductor). Worcester Cathedral 30.7.2024. (JQ)

Anna Lapwood © Dale Hodgetts

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The UK premiere of Snider’s Mass for the Endangered at the Three Choirs Festival

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Three Choirs Festival [3] – Biles-Liddell, Weir, Elgar, Snider: Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Samuel Hudson (conductor). Worcester Cathedral, 29.7.2024. (JQ)

Samuel Hudson conducts the Three Choirs Festival Chorus and the Philharmonia © Dale Hodgetts

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The Three Choirs Festival Voices revive a neglected major work by Holst

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Three Choirs Festival [2] – Dearden, Weir, Respighi, Holst: Beth Taylor (mezzo-soprano), Three Choirs Festival Voices, Philharmonia Orchestra / Geraint Bowen (conductor) Worcester Cathedral 28.7.2024. (JQ)

Three Choirs Festival Voices © Dale Hodgetts

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With a highly committed Stabat Mater, the Three Choirs Festival does Stanford proud

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Three Choirs Festival [1] – Grace-Evangeline Mason, Holst, Stanford: Rebecca Hardwick (soprano), Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo-soprano), Nicky Spence (tenor), Themba Mvula (baritone), Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Worcester Cathedral Choristers, Philharmonia Orchestra / Samuel Hudson (conductor) Worcester Cathedral, 27.7.2024. (JQ)

Stanford’s Stabat Mater at the Three Choirs Festival © James O’Driscoll

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Saint Cecilia Singers premiere an important and moving new work by Neil Cox in Gloucester

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Byrd, Cox, Williams, Allegri, Bernstein: Tom Lilburn (countertenor), Piers Maxim (organ), Laura Morris (French horn), Cecily Beer (harp), Jack Redman (keyboard), Diggory Seacome, Anna Newman (percussion), Ivan Barritt (sound engineer); Saint Cecilia Singers / Jonathan Hope (conductor). Gloucester Cathedral 22.3.2024. (JQ)

Saint Cecilia Singers

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Gabriel Jackson’s new work gets an assured and committed performance in Oxford’s Merton College

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Gabriel Jackson, The Christmas Story: Girl Choristers of Merton College (conductor, Carys Lane), Owen Chan & François Cloete (organ), The Choir of Merton College, Kyan Quartet, Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia / Benjamin Nicholas (conductor). Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, 10.12.2023. (JQ)

Gabriel Jackson © Reinis Hofmanis

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Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra were on scintillating form at the BBC Proms

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Prom 55 – Carlos Simon, Stravinsky, Gershwin, Ravel: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet (piano), Boston Symphony Orchestra / Andris Nelsons (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London 26.8.2023. (JQ)

Yves Thibaudet plays Gershwin at the BBC Proms 2023 © BBC/Chris Christodoulou

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