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Robert Hayward was unafraid to 'go ugly' when need be in Jurowski's symphonically executed concert performance. 

J.C. Bach's opera Adriano in Siria, set to a popular libretto by Metastasio, was first performed in London in January 1765 when the nine-year-old Mozart was in town.

Vladimir Jurowski is a wily programmer. Pairing a concert performance of Rachmaninov's The Miserly Knight with extracts from Das Rheingold seemed a shrewd move.

With only twelve singers, including the soloists, the Dunedin Consort gives an insight into what the first Messiah might have sounded like in Dublin's Musick Hall in 1742.

Philip Glass finds a new simplicity in an impressive première production of The Trial from Music Theatre Wales. 

The penultimate concert in a three-year project to record the complete songs of Hugo Wolf, this Oxford Lieder Festival concert’s programme was based around settings of Goethe.

Since reading Stravinsky’s assertion (in Poetics of Music) that “The more constraint one imposes, the more one frees oneself from the chains that shackle the spirit”, this paradox has fascinated me.

Bell’s Whisky used to be almost synonymous with Perth, and anyone who lives in Perth and Kinross will have been touched by the generosity of A.K. Bell’s Gannochy Trust, started 75 years ago. Early projects included sewerage systems to improve the quality of the river Tay, and setting up the Gannochy Housing Estate.

Ein swingender Konzertabend, der Mut machte, Bachs Weihnachtsoratorium einmal selbst im häuslichen Kreis zu musizieren.

Der Idomeneo des Salzburger Landestheaters überzeugt durch stimmliche Klasse und einem intellegenten Bühnenbild, das in ständiger Bewegung ist und immer Neues bietet.