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COMPILED & WRITTEN BY PAUL RILEY London Sinfonietta The Story Garden, King’s Cross, London, 14 September londonsinfonietta.org.uk The UK’s leading contemporary music ensemble has green fingers! Who kn

1 WEDNESDAY 6.30-9.30am Breakfast 9.30am-1pm Essential Classics 1-3pm Classical Live 3-4pm Choral Evensong 4-5pm Composer of the Week Berlioz 5-7pm In Tune 7-7.30pm Classical Mixtape 7.30-9.45pm Radio

A man in a bow tie is unpacking items from a small trolley. To the table set up on the manicured, now yellowing lawn he adds a white tablecloth and silver cutlery. His equally well-attired picnickers

I enjoyed reading Francesco Piemontesi’s Concert Heaven, Concert Hell interview (September) about his ‘best’ and ‘worst’ performance... in the semi-final of the Elisabeth Competition in 2007! In fact,

Opera: Tosca Royal Opera House, London WC2 ...

Premières Symphonies Works by Bizet, Gounod and Saint-Saëns Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo/Kazuki Yamada Alpha Classics ALPHA1149 89:27 mins (2CD) The most familiar of these three classically