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This lunchtime concert had a Japanese perfection. It was entirely fat-free, incredibly nourishing, and fashioned in perfectly formed bite-sized chunks.

Philip Langridge may have lost his youthful glamour as Britten's post-Pears tenor mouthpiece - presumably he doesn't have that vital picture in the attic - but at 70 he's still debonair.

Wordworth was, I believe, a descendant of the poet's brother. British composers in particular - Vaughan Williams, Walton, Britten, Rubbra, Arnold, and of course Wordsworth and others - throughout the 20th century music that adhered to perennial values.

Father-and-son Apollo and Orpheus wove their way through everything in Proms 39 and 40, barring a pleasant but unremarkable exercise in string textures by Radiohead star Johnny Greenwood.

It's been a red-letter year for English musical anniversaries. Three hundred and fifty years ago Henry Purcell was born, a century later German-born George Frederick Handel died, having become a naturalised Briton.

"It is very rarely that I find a new writer whose work I love so much" - Katie Fforde on Hungarian Dances "Duchen has a rare talent which is increasingly being recognised" - Gavin Esler on Hungarian Dances "Everything she writes is worth reading" - The Times "A persuasive novelist" - Evening Standard Wednesday, July 15, 2009 Happy birthday, ...

Ostensibly about lost love and melancholy, Harrison Birtwistle 's latest music-theatre works Semper Dowland, semper dolens, theatre of melancholy and The Corridor , a scena about Orpheus and Eurydice , incisively explored central themes of postmodernism, the dialectic of past and present, and the dramatic highlighting of musical memory and time .

Cellist Adrian Bradbury successfully sued the Lowry in Manchester for staging The Wizard of Oz to a backing tape.

One of the more interesting moments in London s musical life in 2006 must have been at the Ivor Novello Awards when opera composer Harrison Birtwistle weighed in against popular music, accusing it of sentimentality and cliche.

London, Semper Dowland and The Corridor open Aldeburgh More reviews by Barry Millington Eurydice: Elizabeth Atherton The 62nd Aldeburgh Festival is the first under the artistic directorship of Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

Birtwistle Premiere at the Aldeburgh Festival - review The uncompromising Harrison Birtwistle had composed two new works of melancholy hue.

There was no excuse for being late at Saturday afternoona TMs concert. In the foyer of the new Hoffmann building at Snape an exhibition of timepieces marked the hour and each performing space inside hosted music to do with time a ' from a piece by Ligeti, in which 100 metronomes tick-tocked away at random, to tapes of Big Ben and the clock at Wells ...