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Hanslip, Northern Chamber Orchestra, Stoller Hall, Manchester review -...
★★★★ HANSLIP, NORTHERN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, STOLLER HALL Lyricism and challengeTop violinist puts conductor-less orchestra through its paces Manchester’s oldest chamber orchestra has been gathering a new...
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The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, Royal Exchange, Manchester review - a...
Gentle spoofing turns to something much more earthy and traditionalThis is a story of an innocent who finds herself unexpectedly in a strange, unknown world. The same could be true for those in its...
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Album: Johnny Marr - Fever Dreams Pts 1-4
★★★★ JOHNNY MARR - FEVER DREAMS PTS 1-4 Faith in rock's alchemising power spread thin but true on a riff-heavy double-albumFaith in rock's alchemising power spread thin but true on a riff-heavy...
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Fisher, BBC Philharmonic, Wigglesworth, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review -...
Launch concert of a cycle and a long international celebrationThere was no overt reference to the world outside in this concert, and yet the poignancy of its content could hardly have been clearer if...
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Hough, BBC Philharmonic, Wellber, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review -...
Brilliance and nuance alongside new visions of heroism and freedomThere was something extraordinarily powerful and moving about Saturday’s Beethoven commemoration concert by the BBC Philharmonic and...
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Koranyi, Hallé, Berglund, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - beauty and joy
Cello soloist teamed with a former-cellist conductor for outstanding performanceIt’s catching on … for the second consecutive night I heard an orchestra begin by playing, to a standing audience, the...
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Hallé Choir, BBC Philharmonic, Davis, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review -...
Three big works from the English visionary of the 20th centuryContinuing the joint BBC Philharmonic/Hallé celebration of Vaughan Williams, Sir Andrew Davis took on the job of presenting three...
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Classical CDs: Escalators, dead leaves and a sixth-century bard
CLASSICAL CDS Welsh song, 21st century chamber music and some masterful brass playingWelsh song, 21st century chamber music and some masterful brass playing Eric Nathan: Missing Words (New Focus...
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BBC Philharmonic, Wilson, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester - passionate advocacy...
★★★★★ BBC PHILHARMONIC, WILSON, BRIDGEWATER HALL, MANCHESTER Passionate advocacy for Vaughan Williams, both filmic and symphonic stylesPrecision and vivid effects mark both filmic and symphonic...
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Hallé, Wilson, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - valedictory Vaughan...
Contrasting radical young Holst with an 80-year-old’s final symphonyThe baton passed, metaphorically, to the Hallé last night in the Vaughan Williams symphony cycle shared between them and the BBC...
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Rangwanasha, Williams, Hallé Orchestra and Choirs, Elder, Bridgewater Hall,...
★★★★★ RANGWANASHA, WILLIAMS, HALLE ORCHESTRA AND CHOIRS, ELDER, BRIDGEWATER HALL, MANCHESTER Epic Vaughan WilliamsTwo extraordinary symphonies take to the high seas with noble captain and crew In the...
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Osborne, Hallé, Elder, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - an eclectic mix
★★★★ OSBOURNE, HALLE, ELDER, BRIDGEWATER HALL, MANCHESTER An eclectic mixGlory in conclusion of Manchester's Vaughan Williams symphonies cycleThe Mancunian tribute to Ralph Vaughan Williams – a...
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Dandy, BBC Philharmonic, New, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - energy...
Gustav and Alma Mahler, and pictorial music, are linked in a fascinating programmeSaturday’s concert by the BBC Philharmonic was in large measure about the Mahlers – Gustav and Alma. The former’s First...
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Album: Everything Everything - Raw Data Feel
Manchester indie art-rockers experiment successfully with musical AISince their 2010 debut, Man Alive, Everything Everything have dissected the various structures of human relationships, from...
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Album: Liam Gallagher - C'Mon You Know
Lots of big-sounding sonic detail but a lack of great songs on the latest from LiamWhile Britpop was a retrogressive media construct, Oasis were a genuine socio-musical phenomenon (albeit also...
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Madama Butterfly, Hallé, Elder, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - an...
Sir Mark Elder brings the Hallé season to its close with wizardry in PucciniAn opera in the Hallé concert series, conducted by Sir Mark Elder, is rather like a blend of a religious observance and a...
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Hughes, Manchester Collective, Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester review - new work...
★★★★ HUGHES, MANCHESTER COLLECTIVE, HALLE ST PETERS New work, stunning singingEdmund Finnis song cycle gets its launch with passion, anguish and consolationManchester Collective were back on home...
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Album: Aitch - Close to Home
Manchester's great white hope on charming form as he grapples with meteoric success22 is a pretty young age to be jaded. But this album starts out with Mancunian rapper Aitch detailing how tough it is...
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