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    Cheltenham Music Festival 2017: 21st Century String Quartet, The Hallé

    by 5:4 July 19, 2017 • 16:26
    July 19, 2017 • 16:26

    Here’s a suggestion: if a composer can’t summarise their programme note in fewer than a couple of hundred words, that’s a problem. Is that terribly controversial? Judging by what we were given at the Cheltenham Music Festival last Saturday, it is. This is not a local problem, though, it’s something…

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    Cheltenham Music Festival 2017: Tenebrae

    by 5:4 July 13, 2017 • 15:40
    July 13, 2017 • 15:40

    What is it with British contemporary choral music? i found myself asking that question constantly during the fourteen minutes of Footsteps, the work that opened last night’s Cheltenham Music Festival concert in Tewkesbury Abbey, given by the vocal ensemble Tenebrae. It perhaps goes without saying that one makes a double…

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    Cheltenham Music Festival 2017: Love Songs

    by 5:4 July 10, 2017 • 12:36
    July 10, 2017 • 12:36

    Last night saw the second concert of this year’s Cheltenham Music Festival to be almost completely devoted to contemporary music. i described the previous one, with E STuudio Youth Choir, as being “a mixed bag of confections”, and the same applies to this event, a piano recital titled ‘Love Songs’…

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    Cheltenham Music Festival 2017: E STuudio Youth Choir

    by 5:4 July 8, 2017 • 15:54
    July 8, 2017 • 15:54

    In the wake of my experiences at this year’s Estonian Music Days, extended in my recent weekend of articles focusing on the country’s choral music, yesterday’s late evening concert at St Matthew’s Church in Cheltenham was a real treat. It featured a choir new to me, the E STuudio Youth Choir,…

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