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

24/03/202423/03/2024 by John Quinn

United 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)

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

20/12/202311/12/2023 by John Quinn

United 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)

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

28/08/202327/08/2023 by John Quinn

United 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

Elgar’s The Apostles is a richly rewarding end to the 2023 Three Choirs Festival

27/08/202330/07/2023 by John Quinn

United Kingdom Three Choirs Festival 2023 [11] – Elgar: Philippa Boyle (soprano – Virgin Mary), Martha McLorinan (mezzo-soprano – Mary Magdalene), Michael Bell (tenor – St John), John Savournin (bass-baritone – Judas), James Geidt (baritone – St Peter), Dingle Yandell (bass-baritone – Jesus), Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Adrian Partington (conductor). Gloucester Cathedral 29.7.2023. (JQ)

Elgar’s *The Apostles* closes the 2023 Three Choirs Festival

A misguided repertoire choice for the debut of the Three Choirs Festival Voices

27/08/202329/07/2023 by John Quinn

United Kingdom Three Choirs Festival [10] – Vaughan Williams, Fitkin: James Hall (countertenor), Dominic Sedgwick (baritone), Samuel West (narrator), Worcester Cathedral Choristers, Three Choirs Festival Voices, Philharmonia Orchestra / Samuel Hudson (conductor). Gloucester Cathedral, 28.7.2023. (JQ)

Conductor Samuel Hudson with Samuel West (left) and James Hall (right) © Dale Hodgetts

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

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

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

Elgar’s The Apostles is a richly rewarding end to the 2023 Three Choirs Festival

A misguided repertoire choice for the debut of the Three Choirs Festival Voices

Revealing light shone on a contemporary of Bach at the Three Choirs Festival

A fine account of the St John Passion at the Three Choirs Festival

An expertly performed Choral Fantasia by the ORA Singers at the Three Choirs Festival