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Have your say… Absent pilgrim A concert I missed but would have loved to have attended was in 2000 when, as part of his Bach Pilgrimage, John Eliot Gardiner conducted Bach cantatas in Santo Domingo de Bonaval, Santiago de Compostela. The performance of BWV 161 is something I will never forgive myself for missing. Mark […]

On your cover CD

ON YOUR COVER CD Remembering a great all-round musician Julian Haylock introduces the works performed on our disc by the much-loved pianist and conductor Lars Vogt Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’* Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2* Sergei Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2** Frédéric Chopin Nocturne in C sharp minor ArtistsLars Vogt (piano)*Royal […]

Welcome

Welcome When Marin Alsop appeared at the BBC Proms in August with her Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, she was greeted like a returning hero, such was the warmth of the audience’s response. It’s this ability to forge genuine emotional connections that has made Alsop not just an inspiration for aspiring female conductors over the past […]

CITY OF MUSIC

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Music and the night

Music and the night Through the Night Whether peaceful moonlit evenings or witching hour nightmares, composers over the centuries have been inspired by the after hours. Rebecca Franks takes us on a musical journey from dusk till dawn The day is done, the sun has set. Imagine it sinking majestically in the sky, as depicted […]