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The Romantic Symphony, The Northern Sinfonia, The Sage Gateshead

1:20pm Tuesday 11th June 2013

Maestro Thomas Zehetmair took The Northern Sinfonia to the final stage of a musical journey through the symphonies of Brahms and Schumann with a concert that ended the 2012/13 season at The Sage Gateshead in thrilling style.

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Darius Rucker: True Believers (Humphead Records)

1:52pm Thursday 6th June 2013

MENTION Darius Rucker to the musical world and the majority of fans will name him as lead singer and guitarist with rock band Hootie and The Blowfish. The band charted many times with Rucker writing many of their hits between 1986 and 2001. In 2002 he embarked on a solo career but it was not until 2008 that he found his forte by switching to country music and signing to Capitol Records in Nashville. His first single (Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It), from his first album, made him the first African American to chart a number one song on the Hot Country Charts since Charley Pride in 1963. He is now into his fourth studio album release, True Believers, and has just gone to the top of the Billboard Country Airplay Charts with a song called Wagon Wheel taken from the album. Recently, he was inducted as the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry.

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From the House of Master Bohm (Melba MR301143)

1:50pm Thursday 6th June 2013

The distinguished Australian harpsichordist John O’Donnell presents musicalogically authoritative performances of George Bohm’s keyboard suites and chorale partitas.

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Morton Feldman: Violin and Orchestra (ECM New Series 4764929)

1:49pm Thursday 6th June 2013

Violinist Carolin Widmann and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Emilio Pomarico, perform Morton Feldman’s Violin and Orchestra. With an almost painterly attention to detail and to texture this slowly unfolding single movement work written in 1979 marked a new direction in his music. Widman moves within the glowing colour field of sound with exquisite delicacy and feeling. Captivating listening.

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String Paths: Dobrinka Tabakova (ECM New Series (ECM New Series 4764826)

1:48pm Thursday 6th June 2013

The richly melodic and sensuous music of Dobrinka Tabakova brings together the spirit of east and west with a contemporary twist. The Concerto for Cello and Strings, written for the cellist Kristina Blaumane, features ravishing playing. The album concludes with the string septet Such Different Paths led by the silver-toned violinist Janine Janson. A deeply-rewarding album.

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Bedale Acoustic Music Festival

1:47pm Thursday 6th June 2013

LAST weekend’s Bedale Acoustic Music Festival seems to have been a roaring success, and one which it’s hoped can be added to the list of unmissable annual folk events in the area from now on.

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Mats Eilertsen Trio (Hubro HUBROCD2524)

1:46pm Thursday 6th June 2013

I’ve enjoyed a number of Mats Eilertsen’s recent CDs and this is another little gem.

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