MUSICON ‘Creating Connections’
Chair of MUSICON James Weeks explains how the new season is all about ‘creating connection’ through the shared experience of live music.
24 Sep 2024
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Chair of MUSICON James Weeks explains how the new season is all about ‘creating connection’ through the shared experience of live music.
DUPO Symphony and Chamber orchestras paint vivid musical pictures in a concert bursting with colour and passion.
Stunning vocal music spanning six centuries, including brand new compositions by A-level students at St Leonards RC comprehensive school
Somehow, this was actually my first live Messiah since lockdown. Dunelm Consort and Players made it worth the wait in an evening pulsating with energy and joy.
A tightly constructed programme of music by Graźyna Bacewicz. Paul HIndemith and Dmitri Shostokovich reflects both the musical and political moods of the 1930s and 40s.
Guest reviewer Zoe Solomon enjoys playful charm and contemplative moments in Royal Northern Sinfonia’s chamber concert at MUSICON
Deep wells of transcendent beauty in Fantasias and In nomines, played by world-renowned viol consort Fretwork. Review by Chris Massa
Elfrida Andrée’s Svensk Mässa is a perfect pairing for Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem in this concert of Nordic discovery by Durham University Choral Society.
Despite what Moscow propaganda claims, Russian culture isn’t cancelled in the West, but The Golden Cockerel, currently touring with ETO, may not be entirely to Putin’s taste.
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