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Ellington, Kapustin, Dvořák
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Joshua Weilerstein; Frank Dupree
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Mahler, Vaughan Williams
The Hallé; Tarmo Peltokoski; Chen Reiss; Huw Montague Rendall; The Hallé Choir; Matthew Hamilton
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Cunning Little Vixen at the RNCM: simple but richly detailed
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Martin Pickard conducts Leoš Janáček’s ever popular opera The Cunning Little Vixen in a traditional but effective staging by Harry Fehr.
Concertos – for violin and for orchestra – from the Hallé
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Viktoria Mullova is a superb soloist in Brahms' Violin Concerto, while an orchestra full of soloists play Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra with Kahchun Wong presiding.
Wagner and Strauss from Sarah Wegener and the BBC Philharmonic
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Celtic legends and dramatic landscapes fill Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall in an evening of emotional and reflective music under conductor Nicholas Carter.
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Street-smart and subversive: Ailish Tynan talks Così fan tutte
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The Irish soprano talks about singing Mozart’s Così fan tutte with English National Opera, in London and Manchester – and how the wily Despina is the perfectly subversive character for her.
Looking for Thomas Adès in the Aquifer
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In residence in Manchester with the Hallé, Thomas Adès talks about recent pieces Aquifer and Wreath, and how bigness and smallness are never exactly quantifiable.
Phelim McDermott on Flotation tanks and absent kettles
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The English actor and stage director talks Taoism, Manchester’s Royal Exchange and his latest collaboration with Philip Glass.