For oldies? Leonard Cohen and ABC. For Mum? Beyoncé. For Ludwig lovers? Daniel Barenboim's Beethoven album. For everyone else (except Donald Trump) the Hamilton soundtrack. ...read
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The phenomenal John Wilson Orchestra bring the house down with music from Tom and Jerry, My Fair Lady and other classic movies
The John Wilson Orchestra is phenomenal, a crack band of brilliant musicians who bring to life movie music from Hollywood’s golden age, with all the pizzazz that many symphony orchestras lack. What’s more, the players really seem to be enjoying themselves. This tour – Music From The Movies – is different because, for the first time, music from dramatic movies is included alongside that of musicals. ...read
She's having a total blast: trumpeter Alison Balsom's baroque concertos are a lung-busting triumph
The celebrated French trumpeter Maurice André loved to claim that the lung power required to play the trumpet as he did was sufficient to inflate a lorry tyre! The fragrant Alison Balsom looks too fragile to blow out the candles on her birthday cake, but in fact gives André a good run for his money in repertoire so beloved of French trumpeters, that for trumpet and organ. ...read
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