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BirminghamQueen Symphonic: A Rock Orchestra Experience
Queen
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Richard Sidwell; Jon Boydon; Jenna Lee-James; Peter Eldridge; Rachael Wooding
HalleBridges to Classics
Staatskapelle Halle; Bernd Ruf; Anke Sieloff; Benjamin Köthe; GermanPops Band and Singers
BarcelonaMike Oldfield's Tubular Bells
Oldfield: Tubular Bells
Xavier Alern; Albert Martínez; Marcos Sánchez; Manuel Suárez
LilleEnfance, nature et magie
Crumb, Stockhausen
Solistes du Balcon; Elise Chauvin; Iris Zerdoud; Claire Luquiens
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Experiments in Opera returns with a strange story of resurrection
Soprano Gelsey Bell instilled a very human spirit into the role of the troubled widow. The decidedly formal Jeffrey Gavett was well cast as the dead man. Their duets rang with perfection.
Tognetti releases the inner impulses of Bach
Richard Tognetti’s absorbing programme mixed Bach’s Goldberg Variations with Stravinsky and Adès, played impressively and with characteristic exuberance and finesse by the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
The pleasures and perils of electronic music
NYVOS Next offers works by Alvin Lucier, Kaija Saariaho and evening curator Kate Soper in a program demonstrating both the breadth of and inherent risks in live performance with electronics.
The Source belongs here and now
It's not really an opera (or even an oratorio), but Ted Hearne's The Source is important and engaging.
Scenic collage about fear
During Salzburg's Easter Festival, Isabel Karajan presented her look into Shostakovich and russisch authors who suffered under the Stalin Regime. The result is a fascinating collage about fear.
Rare, extraordinary: Philip Glass Ensemble at The Rest is Noise
Introduced by Southbank Centre’s artistic director, Jude Kelly, this latest instalment of The Rest is Noise festival felt like one of those events that rarely finds its way into the concert diary. A packed hall witnessed one of those feats of sheer physical, intellectual and emotional energy that you are unlikely to forget.