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Harry Fehr, director of the new Scottish Opera production of The Flying Dutchman , recently confessed that he would not like to sit next to Richard Wagner at dinner. This is not especially controversial: for all but the most uncritical fans, dining
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Old stories ignite new passions as Oliver Knussen conducts Angelika Kirchschlager in The Rape of Lucretia , and Barbara Hannigan , James Gilchrist and Jasper de Waal join Amsterdam Sinfonietta for Les Illuminations and Serenade for Tenor, Horn and
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Suggested Topics After a long absence following an injury plus psychological burn-out, Maxim Vengerov has spent this year making his come-back: he's given scores of concerts abroad, but his re-entry into the London scene has been very carefully
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Just like the Christmas specials, an annual tradition has developed whereby each year on Children in... Writer and comedienne Grainne Maguire spoke to fellow comic Ross Noble about his stand-up jubilee, t... This weekend sees the Southbank Centre
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A programme of favourites, under a genuine rising-star conductor: the Barbican should have been packed, but too few London concertgoers seem aware of quite how good the Scottish Chamber Orchestra actually is. The string tone that Robin Ticciati drew
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It's the age of long hair and raging hormones, wide lapels and wider collars, the age of new found permissiveness where the world and his dog are gagging for some extra-curricular congress and the great and good are headed for their lavish Spanish
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Buy it from Robin Ticciati 's first disc with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra is devoted to the composer who has featured prominently in his programmes since he became their principal conductor in 2009. Few previous recordings of the Symphonie
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Hebridean psalm singing and chaos theory, Jorge Luis Borges and the harmonic overtone series. Unlikely bedfellows, but Martin Suckling fuses these influences and more into his engrossing, haunting and self-assured storm, rose, tiger. The Glasgow-born
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A good concert fits together like a good album, each piece working best in the company of its neighbours. Conductor Robin Ticciati plans accordingly not just at the stage of choosing repertoire, but in tailoring his performances to fit their context.
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Conducting two Proms Nicholas Collon of the Aurora Orchestra. Photograph: Benjamin Ealovega It's one thing to launch an orchestra; it's quite another to make it a success at a time when orchestras are having to cope with cuts. But such is the
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