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Meriel Dickinson obituary

Mezzo-soprano who performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Welsh National Opera and was acclaimed for her interpretations of Kurt Weill

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26

“I found the underground a more realistic place – bodies all over the floor, film projections on various surfaces, and a right old racket coming from the stage… altogether rather dreamlike”: Robert Wyatt on his improvised life

Fuelled by jazz, socialism and an absurdist slant on the world around him, the retired Canterbury icon’s instincts served him well during a remarkable career

Louder · Jan 28, 2025

Diana Cumming obituary

Other lives: Artist whose strange, expressive paintings were admired by Frank Auerbach and collected by Benjamin Britten

The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2024

From Tchaikovsky to Pankhurst, the quiet love stories of history's queer musicians

Classical music doesn't have a particularly radical reputation, but that doesn't mean that queer culture hasn't been thriving for centuries within its ranks.

ABC News · Feb 28, 2023

Ed Lyon/James Cleverton/Psappha review – touching, lyrical premieres

Conor Mitchell’s Look Both Ways was the centrepiece of an evening of new music at the Cheltenham festival: a song cycle setting the love letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears

The Guardian - UK · Jul 17, 2022

Concert hall that hosted Ed Sheeran performance granted listed status

Snape Maltings Concert Hall is close to Sheeran’s Suffolk home and was chosen as the venue for his Radio 1 Big Weekend gig last year.

The Independent UK · May 31, 2022

The week in classical: Peter Grimes; Emerson Quartet; RPO/Petrenko

An all-star production of Britten’s opera thrilled; Soviet-era melancholy flowed through Shostakovich’s quartets; and the RPO rose to their game-changing new conductor

The Guardian - UK · Mar 26, 2022