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Gloucester Three Choirs Festival to Present Stanford’s Songs of the Sea

The 2019 Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester is to present Stanford’s Songs of Sea in a concert at Gloucester Cathedral with Ralph Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony on Friday August 2nd. 2019. Martyn Brabbins will conduct the Philharmonia Orchestra with Roderick Williams as baritone so
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Dante Quartet complete recording Stanford’s String Quartet cycle

The Dante Quartet recorded Stanford’s String Quartets Numbers 1 and 6 on March 5th and 6th, 2019 at St. Nicholas Church in Thames Ditton to complete their cycle of Stanford’s String Quartets for SOMM Recordings. This is the first project to record the complete cycle of Stanford’s Quar
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The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan at the Wexford Opera Festival 2019

Stanford’s first opera, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, is to be given in a concert performance at 5.00pm on Monday 28th October, 2019 at the Wexford Opera Festival in Ireland. The Veiled Prophet was completed in February 1879 and given its premier in Hanover, Germany on 6th February
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Stanford à Paris

Stanford à Paris On Saturday 6th October 2018, The Ensemble Orchestral will be performing Stanford’s Clarinet Concerto and Symphony No.7. The concert will take place at 8:30pm in Église Saint-Joseph-Artisan de Paris. The soloist will be Christelle Pochet and the conductor will b
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