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Performer: Martyn Brabbins

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GloucesterSongs of the Sea

Three Choirs Festival
Mendelssohn, Wood, Elgar, Sumsion, McDowall, Stanford
Philharmonia Orchestra; Martyn Brabbins; Roderick Williams; Three Choirs Festival Chorus

GlasgowHarrison Birtwistle's The Second Mrs Kong

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Martyn Brabbins; Victoria Newlyn; John Findon; Anna Dennis; Sir John Tomlinson
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The Nash Ensemble celebrates Amelia Freedman at Wigmore Hall

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This Memorial Concert, given by the Nash Ensemble at Wigmore Hall, unites both the group and the venue closely associated with Amelia Freedman’s distinguished career as an arts administrator.
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UK premiere of Julia Wolfe’s unEarth impresses on scale, not substance

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Wolfe's climate-change oratorio, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, already feels out of date.

**111
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Celebrating 90 years of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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Martyn Brabbins conducts MacMillan’s Confession of Isobel Gowdie, BBCSSO founder Ian Whyte’s forgotten Violin Concerto with Stephanie Gonley, and a memorable Rachmaninov 2.

****1
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Total Immersion with Boulez at the Barbican

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A BBC day of talks and concerts yields delight and revelation in equal measure. 
*****
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Nash Inventions: a sonic feast for six decades

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Martyn Brabbins and Claire Booth are among the Nash Ensemble's regular collaborators celebrating the group’s 60th Anniversary, marked by four world premieres.
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The Makropulos Affair defies the march of time

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Orla Boylan’s creation oozes charisma and reeks of entitlement, driven to emotional cruelty by the lassitude of a life too-long lived.
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