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In Poole, Kirill Karabits combines lesser-known composers with those more familiar and creates an absorbing evening of great music-making.

Entertainment ideal for country house opera-goers, enhanced by some fine singing and excellent playing from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

 A Glière premiere and two French classics showcase the outstanding qualities of the BSO in a night to remember.

Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony is given its first performance in Poole in a Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra concert which included another opportunity to hear the music of Feodor Akimenko. 

Two popular Prokofiev works were given vivid accounts by the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse at the opening concert of the Franco-russes Festival.

The Zurich Opernhaus tackles the pandemic with an innovative strategy: instead of reducing the size of orchestra and chorus (as many other European opera houses) it removes them from the theatre altogether. 

Music across a century from two different cultural spaces made for a fascinating journey with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Kirill Karabits as superb guides.