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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

The Guardian - UK

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

Manchester Evening News

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

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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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