Superb performances illuminate a disc which reveals a different side to contemporary composer Julian Anderson
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Pianist, composer and arranger Iain Farrington has created an eleven-concert series, A Mahler Piano Series, that explores the European musical melting pot of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on the music of Mahler with many of the symphonies being performed in piano transcriptions alongside the music that influenced Mahler.
A chance to hear Aprile Millo live in London, though she kept us waiting till the end for some real Verdi spinto style
A supremely poetic account of Parry's choral masterpiece, alongside a striking new work by Laura Mvula
A striking new opera which explores the life and tragedy of the last woman to be hanged in the UK
A production that underlined and delivered a strong message of unity through a trio of mixed faiths