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‘When I heard it, I nearly fell off my chair’: behind the scenes at Angel’s Bone, ENO’s audacious Manchester debut

After years of upheaval, English National Opera is staging its first new opera in its northern base: the Pulitzer-winning Angel’s Bone, about two angels brutally exploited by human traffickers. We talk to its creators

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From I Know What You Did Last Summer to Washington Black: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

The 90s slasher franchise is back from the dead and looking for revenge, and Sterling K Brown shines in a new historical epic

The Guardian - UK

Prom 25: BBC Philharmonic/Storgårds review – the best new work of the season?

The centrepiece of a programme of Schumann, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky was Hans Abrahamsen’s seamlessly inventive Horn Concerto, played immaculately by Stefan Dohr

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Prom 16: BBC Philharmonic/Storgårds review – Shostakovich’s impact is blunted

Lawrence Power was the spellbinding soloist in Cassandra Miller’s intimate viola concerto, and the BBC Philharmonic played superbly in a somewhat muted reading of Shostakovich’s fourth

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Classical home listening: Shostakovich’s 14th Symphony; Riot Ensemble’s Vestige

The BBC Philharmonic under John Storgårds excels in Shostakovich’s intimate penultimate symphony, while new music champions Riot Ensemble explore memory, healing and desire

The Guardian - UK

Prom 26: BBCPhil/Storgårds review – Barry takes us inside Kafka’s head

Gerald Barry’s deliberately muted new work, Kafka’s Earplugs, failed to make an impact in this venue, while James Ehnes was a deft and impressive soloist in Walton’s violin concerto

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The week in classical: Manchester Classical; Alice Sara Ott and Friends: Quartet for the End of Time – review

The Hallé, BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata and Manchester Collective join forces in an enticing new weekender for their home city. Elsewhere, breathless, barefoot revelations with Messiaen

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A giant slinky toy and other spectacular illuminations will light up Salford Quays this winter

The awe-inspiring FREE Lightwaves Festival is back at Salford Quays

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BBC to air rediscovered work by ‘one of greatest composers of African descent’

BBC Philharmonic will premiere composition by Nathaniel Dett described as ‘throwback to music of west African slaves’

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Prom 25: BBCPhil/Storgårds/Eyck review – Aho’s theremin casts a spell

Carolina Eyck was mesmerising in Kalevi Aho’s theremin concerto, while Kaija Saariaho’s Vista and Shostakovich’s 15th symphony were superbly played by the BBC Philharmonic

The Guardian - UK

Salford invented the weekend and now we’re getting a new festival to celebrate it

We Invented The Weekend: The Festival of Free Time will happen on September 10 and 11

Manchester Evening News

The week in classical: BBC Philharmonic/Wigglesworth; Sergei Babayan and Martha Argerich

Hope and humanity echo in Vaughan Williams’s anti-war symphonies, while Argerich and Babayan’s Prokofiev moves from breakneck to dreamlike

The Guardian - UK

BBCPhil/Wigglesworth review – Vaughan Williams celebrations open with style but not enough substance

A symphony cycle to mark the 150th anniversary of the English composer began with Mark Wigglesworth and the BBC Philharmonic bringing more questions than answers to the Third and the Fifth

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