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Who will be playing at Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday party?

An upcoming event at London’s Royal Albert Hall will celebrate Sir David Attenborough’s centenary, complete with a music line-up fitting for the momentous occasion.

Euronews

Special live BBC event to celebrate Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday

The BBC Concert Orchestra will perform the scores associated with some of the most unforgettable moments from Planet Earth and Blue Planet.

Evening Standard

New Music Biennial review – sitars, thorax-quaking bass and vibrators

A varied weekend in the UK City of Culture showcased a huge range of energetic, imaginative and boundary-crossing new music

The Guardian - UK

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Dorothy Howell: Orchestral Works album review – buoyant performances show off Howell’s quicksilver gifts

A Keats-inspired tone poem and an evocative still unstaged ballet are among the works finally getting their due in the BBC Concert Orchestra’s new recording

The Guardian - UK

Rufus Wainwright: Want One and Want Two review – double-Prom epic is magnificently opulent

As Wainwright hops from grand piano to acoustic guitar, the BBC Concert Orchestra knows when to roar and when to whisper

The Guardian - UK

“Some guy who obviously didn’t recognise me said, ‘You just ruined a classic song.’ But another chap replied, ‘He’s allowed. He wrote the song!’”: Keith Emerson’s disastrous karaoke incident

The keyboard legend's jam-packed career saw interactions with a varied cast from the ‘strange’ Dario Argento to Motörhead’s Lemmy

Louder

Il trovatore; The Planets; Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed at the Orchestra review – from Bosch to Bash Street

Spellbinding Jamie Barton and company excel in Adele Thomas’s clear-sighted take on volatile Verdi; to the final frontier via Peckham; and kazoos at the ready for a Beano Concerto

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Maconchy, Lutyens and Wallen: Works for Piano and Orchestra review – first-time recordings pack a punch

The BBC Concert Orchestra bounce off the coiled spring of Martin Jones’s piano playing as moments of reflective beauty shine through in previously unrecorded works

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m finding my voice’: the opera sung by once homeless people

Casts of singers who previously lived on streets to perform in Nottingham, Manchester and London

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