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OxfordAurora Orchestra: Bernstein & Bach

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Bernstein, Muhly, Bach
Aurora Orchestra; Nicholas Collon; BBC Singers

LondonMemory Unwrapped: Aurora Orchestra - Where Memory Sings

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Muhly, Bernstein, Bach
Aurora Orchestra; Nicholas Collon; BBC Singers; Edmund de Waal

LondonOrigins Unwrapped: Aurora Orchestra - Inside Beethoven’s Septet

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Beethoven: Septet in E flat major, Op.20
Aurora Orchestra

LondonAurora Orchestra: American Quartets

Kings Place
Barber, Montgomery, Dvořák
Members from Aurora Orchestra

LondonMendelssohn and the Moving Machines

Kings Place
Mendelssohn
Aurora Orchestra

LondonFire and Eternal Light: In Celebration of William Blake

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Parry, Harris, Hawes, Mozart
Aurora Orchestra; Patrick Hawes; BBC Singers
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Baroque’n’roll Vivaldi from Pekka Kuusisto in Aurora jam session

Pekka Kuusisto, Ale Carr and Aurora Orchestra © Chuko Cribb
Swedish folk musician Ale Carr joins the multi-faceted Finn and Aurora Orchestra in an unconventional but brilliant take on Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
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Mahler by heart – and on the couch: Aurora Orchestra at the BBC Proms

Sarah Twomey (Sigmund Freud) and Jack Bardoe (Gustav Mahler) © BBC | Mark Allan
A musical and dramatic exploration of Mahler’s First Symphony by Nicholas Collon and Aurora Orchestra. 
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Echoes of Youth from the Aurora principals at Kings Place

Leoš Janáček (c 1890) © Public domain
Billed under the heading ‘Echoes of Youth’, this Kings Place programme is an attractive ragbag of unlikely bedfellows. 
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Brett Dean and Lotte Betts-Dean unlock musical memories at Kings Place

Lotte Betts-Dean, Brett Dean and Aurora Orchestra © Julian Guidera
Father and daughter team of Brett Dean and Lotte Betts-Dean join forces for the opening concert of Kings Place’s ‘Memory Unwrapped’ season. 
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Aurora dazzle in Edinburgh International Festival debut

Aurora Orchestra © Jess Shurte
Aurora Orchestra turn Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony inside out to exhilarating effect in a dazzling performance in their Scottish debut. Abel Selaocoe’s Four Spirits, on the other hand, has surface shine but not much substance.
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Aurora Orchestra pulls off another dramatic performance from memory

Max Revell as Dmitri Shostakovich © BBC | Andy Paradise
Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra, together with Frantic Assembly, present an illuminating analysis of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, followed by a blistering account of the work from memory.
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LondonProm 72: Symphonie Fantastique

Aurora Orchestra © BBC | Mark Allan
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (orchestral theatre staging)
Aurora Orchestra; Nicholas Collon; Mathew Baynton; Blind Summit Theatre

HamburgAurora Orchestra / Abel Selaocoe / Nicholas Collon

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Selaocoe, Beethoven
Aurora Orchestra; Nicholas Collon; Abel Selaocoe
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A walk through King’s Cross via Kings Place

View of Kings Place © Monika S Jakubowska
Kings Place, of the most successful new additions to the London music scene, sits in a rapidly changing King’s Cross – an intersection of new architecture, culture and heritage. 

Big orchestral statements: BBC Proms 2025

Aurora Orchestra at the BBC Proms © BBC | Mark Allan
With a focus on Shostakovich, and many prestigious guest orchestras from around Europe, this year’s BBC Proms confirms orchestral music can make a big public statement.

Music for the people: Migros Culture Percentage Classics 2024–25

Iván Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra © Andy Paradise
Migros, one of Switzerland’s largest retailers, has been running a classical music concert series for more than 70 years, with low ticket prices designed to make music widely accessible.