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🎻 Baroque duo brings 17th-century music to life in London

On a London stage, two musicians turned a 400-year-old play title into an evening of lively baroque music. Lutenist Thomas Dunford and violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte performed The Mad Lover as part of the London Festival of Baroque Music, a programme drawn from John Eccles and his 17th-century contemporaries. The concert balanced freewheeling energy with precise virtuosity, and the pair cle…

Source: The Guardian

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra delivers a mixed program

The orchestra's recent concert at Lighthouse, Poole, mixed works by Tippett, Vaughan Williams, Adès, and Sibelius under chief conductor Mark Wigglesworth. The Tippett concerto stood out, while the Sibelius Fifth Symphony was played with strong personality. The program may have seemed unusual on paper, but the performance revealed a shared creative struggle with musical tradition and innovatio…

Source: The Guardian