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Expressive Ralph Vaughan Williams, followed by operatic Mozart and Beethoven, brings brief warmth to an October evening in Manchester.

All praise should be heaped on Rosie Middleton for her brave evocation and the vocal prowess of her performance in Peter Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King. 

Continuing with their ‘Made in Manchester’ series of Mozart concertos in Stoller Hall, Manchester Camerata turn to the horn concertos with soloist Martin Owen. 

All good things must come to end, but Manchester Camerata's Mozart piano concerto cycle did so in exceptional style in Stoller Hall.

Based around the Sufi myth of the bulbul, a bird said to sing more sweetly as it approaches death, Odedra's new work brings together North Indian Kathak dance, Sufi myth and Islamic poetry.

OperaUpClose's vision of a dystopian England through Wagner's Flying Dutchman, distilled for chamber forces, receives strong performances from the cast and Manchester Camerata players.

Two fascinating and hugely entertaining recent pieces started a superb concert by the strings of the Manchester Camerata, joined by Jess Gillam in Glazunov's Saxophone Concerto and the Brodsky Quartet in Elgar's Introduction and Allegro. Tchaikovsky crowned the concert.

Gábor Takács-Nagy and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet tackle Mozart's Piano Concertos nos. 24 and 25 with the Manchester Camerata with their usual panache.

Five diverse pieces from Central Europe are united by humour and fine perfomances by Jovan Ilias Kadesha as soloist and director of the Manchester Camerata.

The Manchester Camerata continue their cycle of Mozart piano concertos with Gábor Takács-Nagy and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

A memorable outdoor Traviata from a young cast who immerse us completely in the story.

Manchester Camerata looks to Sven Helbig for its next cross-genre collaborator, with some hits and some misses.

Gabor Takács-Nagy conducts the Manchester Camerata in Mendelssohn, Bruch and Schumann

Challenging musical norms and blurring the lines between genres, Manchester Camerata shows off its "restless ambition" at the RNCM.

The Manchester Camerata under Gábor Takács-Nagy with violinist Jennifer Pike played three English works and Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony.

The Manchester Camerata under Alpesh Chouhan and soprano Olena Tokar welcomed the New Year with Johann Strauss favourites, five of Brahms's Hungarian Dances and a selection of arias.

The Manchester Camerata directed by Giovanni Guzzo gave moving, entertaining and expressive pieces by Pärt, Mozart, Piazzolla and Britten with Guzzo and pianist Gabriela Montero as soloists.

A joyful concert by the Manchester Camerata conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy with Craig Ogden in music by Rossini, Chabrier, Rodrigo and Beethoven, with a few surprises along the way.

Manchester Camerata’s series of Mozart concertos, an ongoing theme in their 40th anniversary season, came to a close with pianist Ferenc Rados joining fellow Hungarian Gábor Takács-Nagy for a superb account of the Piano Concerto no. 15 at the Royal Northern College of Music.The broader theme of the evening, though, was movement, and two modern works began proceedings to fascinating effect.

Drei Uraufführungen stehen im Mittelpunkt des Programms beim Manchester International Festival.