A consummate performance all round: students from Royal Academy of Music & The Juilliard School in Stravinsky, Delage, Knussen with Barbara Hannigan, Charlotte Corderoy, Alexandra Beason, Lisa Dafydd, Elizabeth Green. My concert review:
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The Crown: American counter-tenor Randall Scotting his disc of arias written for the castrato Senesino & the research that went into creating it, on Signum Classics with OAE & Laurence Cummings. My interview:
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Memories of two very special concerts Oxford Lieder last week! Thank you wonderful audiences and amazing colleagues inc George Ireland. Thanks too Robert Hugill and Curtis Rogers for the kind words. George and I can’t wait to be back in the spring… Bravo OL & Sholto Kynoch! ✨

Robert Hugill The Sixteen Southwark Cathedral Rochester Cathedral Thanks very much Robert for this 😊

Reflections on All the Ends of the World: violinist Lizzie Ball Lizzie Ball on her project with The Sixteen to highlight climate change and global warming with video from Heather Britton at Southwark Cathedral & Rochester Cathedral. Lizzie's article:
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Arctic Circle's Daylight Music returns with Autumn season including Guido Spannocchi Quartet Guido Spannocchi, improvisers from Goldsmiths Music Department, EFG London Jazz Festival, Pictish Trail's Highland Grotto and much more. My preview:
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By this river: Luxembourg-born vibraphonist & composer Pascal Schumacher Pascal Schumacher reinterprets the Brian Eno classic on NEUE MEISTER. My spotlight:
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Inspired by William Blake: St James's Church, Piccadilly season, Visions & Voices Festival: Echoes of William Blake with choral settings from the Blake Singers, plus Mike Westbrook, Susheela Raman and many more. My preview:
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📢 Delighted to announce that Donald Macleod will be our special guest reader for our next event Union Chapel London, weaving poetry & prose between requiems by Fauré and M-A Charpentier!

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Julian Philips Robert Hugill Stuart Jackson George Strivens Oxford Lieder Us too! Was a wonderful experience to share your work with Oxford Lieder’s wonderful audience 😊

Beethoven marathon: pianist Julian Jacobson will celebrate his 75th birthday by be performing all 32 piano sonatas from memory in a single day at St John's Waterloo. My preview:
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Cryogenics, Burke & Hare, Frankenstein & Walt Whitman: creating my cantata Et expecto resurrectionem, to be premiered in Feb 2023 by Ben Vonberg-Clark (tenor), James Atkinson (baritone), Nigel Foster. My article:
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A great review by Robert Hugill of our horn player, George Strivens’s concert yesterday at the Oxford Lieder!

I feel very lucky to have seen George in action at Oxford Lieder yesterday. Thanks for a beautiful concert Stuart Jackson George Strivens and Jocelyn Freeman

Thank you for this Robert, glad that you enjoyed the concert as much as we did!