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LondonNash Ensemble / Harriet Walter

Wigmore Hall
Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schoenberg
Nash Ensemble; Stephanie Gonley; Jonathan Stone; Lawrence Power

LondonClayton / Davies / Brathwaite / Baillieu / Jageurs / Watkins

Wigmore Hall
Britten
Allan Clayton; Iestyn Davies; Peter Brathwaite; James Baillieu
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BBC Scottish and RCS in fruitful partnership in epic Shostakovich 11

Martyn Brabbins © BBC Scottish SO

Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony, in partnership with musicians from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, present a new work from Mingdu Li, Glière’s Horn concerto and an immense Shostakovich 11.

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A double act: Roderick Williams delivers Mahler two ways

Roderick Williams © Theo Williams
Robert and Clara were not the only two-composer family. So were Alma and Gustav. The Nash Ensemble's latest programme highlights Beethoven and the Romantics.
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Round the horn with the Philharmonia

The Philharmonia marked the start of its 75th anniversary year with an absorbing portrait of the French horn in solo and orchestral guises.

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Sumptuous Schumann and bracing Brahms from the Nash Ensemble

Awkard programming but fine musicianship from the Nash Ensemble and Christine Rice as part of its 'German Romantics' series.
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A foggy evening at the New York Philharmonic

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the US première of Tansy Davies' Forest, a work intended to evoke a Romantic sensation of mystery and nature.
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Emperors and prophets from Salonen

Clear playing from Pierre-Laurent Aimard in the Emperor Concerto and a sense of the dramatic in Also sprach Zarathustra brought life to old warhorses, while a new concerto from Tansy Davies made waves.
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Hornucopia: Richard Watkins on Brain, Britten and Turnage

Richard Watkins © Philharmonia Orchestra
Ahead of a programme celebrating the Philharmonia's "horn sound", former principal Richard Watkins talks about the orchestra's debt to Dennis Brain, Britten's Serenade and a new concerto composed for him by Mark-Anthony Turnage.