Erica Jeal
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- Sep 25, 2026
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âI never choose the cautious optionâ: Royal Operaâs Jakub Hrůša on collaboration, control and conducting Wagner (opens the original)
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One year into the role, the Royal Operaâs music director is taking on the challenge of Parsifal, and, next season, the Ring Cycle. Iâm here, and I am courageous says the conductor âYou can choose the cautious option â or you can take the full risk and just go and conduct. Maybe I would like the cautious option, but I never choose it.â Jakub Hrůša learned to trust his instincts at the Royal Opera House back in 2022 when he conducted his first ever Wagner opera â Lohengrin â there,
Exaudi: Pocket Universe album review â virtuoso vocals with a joyfully bonkers bent (opens the original)
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Exaudi/Weeks(NMC)Four substantial, eclectic works written for James Weeksâ ensemble are brought together here, encompassing swooping folk phrasing, delicate harmonising and exuberant stylistic skill There is a lot of joy in this release from Exaudi and their conductor, James Weeks, bringing together four substantial, eclectic works written for the vocal group during the 2010s. The first is Guide by Cassandra Miller. Based on a devotional song as recorded in 1968 by the folk singer Maria Muldau
Opus13: Mendelssohn and Grieg album review â an assured and distinctive debut (opens the original)
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Opus13(Alpha Classics)The young quartet â winners of the Wigmore Hall String Quartet competition â continue to impress in a recording pairing Mendelssohn and Grieg You would expect good things from Opus13 â current BBC New Generation Artists, and winners at last yearâs Wigmore Hall and Bordeaux string quartet competitions â and this assured, distinctive debut lives up to that. The quartet formed in Oslo in 2014 as teenagers, naming themselves after the first piece they played together,
Playing With Fire review â like Disneyâs Fantasia on steroids as a virtual Yuja Wang plays amid luminous dreamworlds (opens the original)
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Southbank Centre, London Wangâs avatar performs music from Ravel and Debussy to Prokofiev and Liszt while dizzying virtual worlds take shape around her in this virtual reality installation It might be the first time that a soloist at the Last Night of the Proms is simultaneously giving another performance in another London venue. Playing With Fire is an installation that lets the pianist Yuja Wang be in two places at once â or perhaps in two universes. Nine pieces of music conjure nine lumin
The Gesualdo Six/Colin Currie Group review â surely the yearâs most atmospheric Prom (opens the original)
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Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Gesualdo Six brought focus and luminous tone to a sequence of early devotional music; Reichâs Tehillim made a mesmeric and ecstatic pairing When Steve Reich wrote Tehillim, half his long life ago, it was a very modern contribution to the ancient tradition of psalm singing. In this late-night Prom celebrating Reichâs 90th birthday, Tehillim was presented next to a sequence of devotional music from medieval Europe, making for what was surely one of this yearâs mo
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