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DortmundJunge Wilde - Rising Stars

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Mendelssohn, Aperghis, Bach, Eötvös, von Schweden, Walshe, Ligeti, Crumb, Sibelius, Sigfúsdóttir, Helgason, Bray, Kurtág, Nagy, Bosmans, Vrebalov, Gershwin
Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir; Valerie Fritz; Áron Horváth; Maat Saxophone Quartet

HanoverVenezianische Opern

Forum Agostino Steffani e. V.
Cesti, Sartorio, Cavalli, Pallavicino
Bernward Lohr; Musica Alta Ripa; Unknown

LondonSidwell Anniversary Concert

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Purcell, Bach, Britten, Palestrina, Harris
Unknown; Geoffrey Webber; Choir of Hampstead Parish Church

LondonBach, the Universe and Everything

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Clemens non Papa, Bach
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Steven Devine; Sofia Kirwan-Baez; Angharad Rowlands; Hugo Brady; Peter Edge

LondonSolomon's Knot

Wigmore Hall
Byrd, Nenna, Jeffreys, Lawes, Purcell
Solomon's Knot

AmsterdamLa Folia

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Falconieri, Merula, Strozzi, Monteverdi, Corelli, Handel, Lully, Bach C.P.E., Vivaldi, Giménez
Dorothee Oberlinger; Ensemble 1700; Núria Rial; Yves Ytier

Lyon13 Visions

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von Bingen: 13 Visions
Clara Lévy, Violin

HanoverSfogava con le stelle

Forum Agostino Steffani e. V.
Steffani, Monteverdi, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Strauss R., Reger, Escaich
Jörg Straube; Norddeutscher Figuralchor; Markus Becker; Ulfert Smidt
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Symmetries in Sound: Ensemble 360 explores music and maths

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Forwards? Backwards? Upside down? All three at once? From Machaut to Pärt, Ensemble 360 considers the relationship between musical structures and varieties of mathematical pattern.
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Ed Lyon excels in Monteverdi’s Songs of Love and War

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Tenor Ed Lyon fulfils a long-held ambition to sing Monteverdi's Eighth Book of Madrigals, conducted by his former teacher, Laurence Cummings at Milton Court.
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Take Five: Fretwork in Sheffield

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Fretwork bring the expected and the startlingly unexpected to Sheffield in a revealing evening of music for viol consort. 

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Dances without movement: Couperin reconsidered by Jean Rondeau

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Jean Rondeau’s anniversary tribute to Louis Couperin reveals a refined but inward-looking aesthetic – beautifully controlled, yet ultimately lacking the rhetorical energy, physicality, and communicative spark essential to this music.

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Murderous madrigalist: Death of Gesualdo a treat for eyes and ears

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Agony, ecstasy and a double murder: Bill Barclay and The Gesualdo Six combine for a theatrical concert celebrating the life – and death – of the Renaissance composer.
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Venetian splendour in Berlin: a heartfelt New Year’s celebration

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Cavalli’s Messa concertata and Venetian polychoral masterpieces shine in Berlin’s Philharmonie, with a heartfelt, immersive New Year’s experience of ritual grandeur and warmth.

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Dudok Quartet Amsterdam: an evening in the arms of Death

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A death-themed evening might not seem a crowd-pleaser, but the Dudok Quartet defies convention in this excellent concert at Sheffield’s Music in the Round.
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Sonnambula and Davóne Tines restore a court entertainment at The Frick

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Restoring the music and the color of a 400-year old piece of musical theatre, New York City renaissance ensemble Sonnambula teams up with bass-baritone Davóne Tines to present A Black Masque.
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