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Get in While Stocks Last: Ballo at the Kings Head Theatre

Belle Lupton | Posted 23.05.2013 | UK Entertainment
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Belle Lupton

It was a full house last night as an audience of everything from grey-topped opera lovers to opportunistic drinkers crammed into the tiny theatre at...

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Prometheus Proves Classical Music Still Matters

James Murphy | Posted 18.08.2012 | UK Entertainment
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James Murphy

Of all the surprises (good and bad) to be found in Ridley Scott's sci-fi spectacular, I was most struck to discover an unlikely stowaway aboard the fated spaceship: 19th Century Polish composer Frédéric Chopin.

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Andreas Scholl - Bach Cantatas; Aleksandra Kurzak - Gioia! /Decca - review

Paul Guest | Posted 19.03.2012 | Home
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Paul Guest

This is countertenor Andreas Scholl's first Bach recording for Decca. He holds worldwide acclaim and is regularly hailed as the "world's greatest countertenor". His superstardom, however, has not stopped him from honouring the works of a certain composer that he has known since the age of nine: Bach.

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