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Meet our new Rising Stars

Thursday 10 April 2025

We've chosen our next (super)group of Rising Stars of the Enlightenment. The auditions are finished and we can…
Headshot portraits of Roxanna Panufnik, Olga Pashchenko, Electra Perivolaris, Freya Waley-Cohen, Errollyn Wallen and Fanny Mendelssohn
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Das Jahr Playlist

Friday 21 February 2025

Discover the music of the incredibly talented Fanny Mendelssohn and the four composers who have written pieces inspired…
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Tea with Netty #56: Harpist Joy Smith

Thursday 5 September 2024

Netty is joined by harpist Joy Smith in her cosy 17th-century weaver's cottage in Essex for the latest episode.
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Sarah Connolly on Mahler's 'Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen'

Tuesday 13 September 2011

Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly talks about Mahler and his Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer), which she performed with us in 2011.
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Phil Dale on the Trombone in Bruckner

Monday 18 April 2016

Trombone Philip Dale talks about the trombone used in Bruckner and explores the types of instrument that were used before then.
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Vladimir Jurowski on Mahler

Saturday 19 March 2016

Principal Artist Vladimir Jurowski discusses our performance of Mahler's Symphony No.2.
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Vladimir Jurowski on Tchaikovsky

Monday 12 January 2015

Principal Artist Vladimir Jurowski, speaks about performing Tchaikovsky on period instruments and the 'striking presence of a young genius' that can be heard in his first symphony.
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V4: The Seasons - In Depth

Monday 4 February 2013

We went along to the rehearsals to chat to choreographer Henri Oguike, Leader Kati Debretzeni and dancer Rhiannon Morgan, who told us more about how the collaboration came together.
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  • The Night Shift

Fairest Isle by Henry Purcell

Sunday 13 July 2014

Soprano Julia Doyle and our players perform Fairest Isle by Henry Purcell.
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Soprano Louise Alder on Handel's Semele

Monday 16 October 2017

Soprano Louise Alder chats about her role as Semele in Handel's steamy opera in which she falls in love with the god Jupiter.

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