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Twisted Disco: Classical Music Meets Rock. Yllwshrk’s Ian Anderson talks to Northern Soul
Today, we enjoy more variety of rock than a Blackpool gift shop.
Read the full story..Review: Thus spoke the Hallé, Strauss and Janácek, Bridgewater Hall
The Hallé Orchestra and the Hallé Choir came together in Manchester recently to deliver a performance of epic proportions in a highly accomplished presentation of Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra and Janácek’s Glagolitic Mass.
Read the full story..Review: The Hallé Orchestra – 2018/19 Season Opening Concert, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Last Thursday in Manchester, with the wind howling and the rain falling so heavily that mass evacuation by ark seemed likely, the Hallé Orchestra opened its 2018/19 season under its guest conductor Karl-Heinz Steffens.
Read the full story..Preview: The Leeds International Piano Competition
The Leeds – as it’s commonly referred to – has come a long way since 1963 and former concert pianist Fanny Waterman’s vision of a piano competition in the heart of West Yorkshire.
Read the full story..Review: St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Leeds Town Hall
Hmm. Ominous silence from Putin’s St Petersburg, cradle of the October Revolution, in its centenary month.
Read the full story..Review: Hallé Pops – Orchestral Masterpieces and Rossini’s Cat
February 20, 1816 was not a good day in the life of Gioachino Rossini.
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