Things may be in the process of changing, but the past months has seen any number of online events – with this concert of British music by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales offering a mixture of the new and (relatively) unfamiliar as made for a compact yet diverse programme. Most significant was a first …
How times change! Malcolm Arnold’s opera, The Dancing Master, was intended for broadcast on BBC television in 1952 but was dropped because its adaptation of a racy Restoration play by William Wycherley was regarded as too bawdy. Needless to say, to audiences in 2021 witnessing this first professional performance in Britain, after successive waves of …
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