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Love & Light

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

| Choir and Organ

The repertoire is contemplative in mood, with medieval chants and liturgical texts a constant theme, beautifully expressed by their ethereal, beautifully blended voices

Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel at Opera Holland Park

Review

Friday, July 7, 2023

| Opera Now

Engaging singing within a production that required greater depth and substance

Rachmaninov: Four Piano Concertos; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op 43 (Yuja Wang)

Review

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

| International Piano

If there is any pianist who can command the necessary delicacy, power and underlying emotional fervour it is Yuja Wang, united to perfection with Gustavo Dudamel

Puccini: Tosca at Grange Park Opera | Live Review

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

| Opera Now

Stephen Medcalf's production of Puccini's operatic thriller had much to celebrate

Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV988 (Víkingur Ólafsson)

Review

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

| International Piano

A cultured, elevated release, not to be missed

The Green Season at Opera North | Live Review

Review

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

| Opera Now

A roundup of the three operas comprising Opera North's 'Green Season' designed by Leslie Travers

Handel: Ariodante at Paris Opera | Live Review

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

| Opera Now

Robert Carsen's interpretation of Handel's opera seria

Sancte Paule Apostole: Music from The Choir of Old Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Edinburgh

Review

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Psalms and hymns are performed with as much care as the less familiar works

Arvo Pärt: Essential Choral Works (Paul Hillier)

Review

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

No one who loves Pärt’s music will want to be without this set

Folks’ Music (Paul Hillier)

Review

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

They reflect the meticulously-punctuated theme of that edition of the festival: the idea that new music in the western classical tradition belongs to us all

Verdi: Macbeth at Mid Wales Opera | Live Review

Review

Monday, March 11, 2024

| Opera Now

'This is an opera that stands or falls more than most on the quality of the two main principals, and in Bouton and the Welsh soprano Mari Wyn Williams who sang Lady Macbeth, MWO struck gold'