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Tom Coult: Pieces That Disappear album review – strikingly rooted and assured works from young composer

The Observer 21 Nov 2024
View image in fullscreen. Tom Coult. Pieces That Disappear album cover ... Indeed, the last of 2023’s Three Pieces That Disappear, conducted here by Martyn Brabbins, at first seems to hover somewhere between Mahler’s Ninth and Purcell ... Share ... .
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Michael White’s classical news: Chichester Psalms; The Turn of the Screw; Schumann; Johan Dalene

Islington Tribune 24 Oct 2024
• This happens to be a strong week for choral rep, with Crouch End Festival Chorus doing Mendelssohn’s trusty Elijah at the Alexandra Palace Theatre, Oct 26 (cefc.org.uk); a student performance of ...
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The week in classical: The Marriage of Figaro; Proms 53, 54, 55 & 56 – review

The Observer 08 Sep 2024
In , Mozart sweeps a beam over all life, tears and laughter as one ... easy to ignore or to enjoy ... a role he has sung at La Scala, Milan and elsewhere ... Martyn Brabbins did a sensitive job, stepping in and recalling his colleague with dignity and affection.
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Proms 53 and 54: BBCSO/Brabbins; Beethoven for Three

The Guardian 01 Sep 2024
... while the next day saw three outstanding musicians grapple with awkward acoustics Martyn Brabbins’ concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra was his second appearance with them at the Proms this summer.
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World-class soprano denied right to settle in the UK

AOL 27 May 2024
“This is where I did my degree ... In her application to remain in the UK, she cited a personal letter of recommendation by Martyn Brabbins, artistic director of the ENO from 2016 to 2023, describing her as a “world-class soprano” ... .
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Payne: Visions and Journeys album review – British composer steps out of Elgar’s shadows

The Guardian 24 May 2024
The two earlier works on this disc, Half-Heard in the Stillness, from 1987, and the variations The Seeds Long Hidden, completed in 1994 (both conducted by Martyn Brabbins), reveal a sometimes awkward compromise between those two tendencies.
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Proms to pay tribute to conductor Andrew Davis with music ‘close to his heart’

London Evening Standard 16 May 2024
It will be conducted by Martyn Brabbins, replacing Sir Andrew, and feature a revised programme ... .
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BBCSO/Brabbins review – a Portuguese mass brings a ray of Rio sunshine

The Guardian 12 May 2024
Barbican, London Mellower than its European counterparts, Nunes Garcia’s mass flowed easily under Brabbins’ baton – and the four solo singers basked in its floridity Beginning a concert that threw two ...
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BBCSO/Brabbins: Italian Radicals review – politically charged, expressive and technical

The Observer 08 May 2024
... were bundled together under the title of Italian Radicals for two concerts, one given by students from the Guildhall school, the other by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins.
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The Jewish conductor who fled neo-Nazi mobs rescues the ENO

The Times/The Sunday Times 03 Mar 2024
It was Martyn Brabbins, English National Opera’s music director, who was supposed to be leading the company into the murky world of Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle this spring.
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Sasha Cooke On Her Musical Journey & India Debut | EXCLUSIVE

News18 17 Feb 2024
Fresh off the success of the Autumn 2023 Season and a triumphant seven-city UK Tour, the orchestra, now in its eighteenth ...
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English National Opera strike suspended as interim settlement agreed

The Observer 29 Jan 2024
A planned strike by musicians and performers in the English National Opera over planned cuts to its workforce has been suspended ... It added ... The ENO’s music director, Martyn Brabbins, resigned last October after the announcement of the cuts ... .
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English National Opera employees to strike over cuts

The Observer 17 Jan 2024
The ENO’s music director, Martyn Brabbins, announced his resignation in October after the announcement of the cuts – which came after the ENO was removed from Arts Council England’s (ACE) national ...
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Experience world-class orchestral

TeluguStop 14 Jan 2024
... back beloved guest artistes – conductor Martyn Brabbins and ....
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Cultural Calendar 2024: The Year Ahead

Hindustan Times 31 Dec 2023
Art & Music Crystal Ball. Cultural Calendar 2024. The Year Ahead ... Nature Morte. Date ... 1 ... 2 ... conductor Martyn Brabbins and pianist Barry Douglas, as well as the India debuts of conductor Gergely Madaras, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and cellist Bryan Cheng.

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