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REVIEW: Glyndeborne’s Messiah at Royal Albert Hall

Reading Time: 2 minutesTransferred for one night only from Glyndebourne’s autumn season to the Royal Albert Hall, this Messiah under Aidan Oliver and the Glyndebourne Sinfonia (leader Richard Milone), with the Glyndebourne Chorus and soloists Soraya Mafi, Claire Barnett-Jones, James Way and James Platt, offered a strikingly intimate reading of Handel’s oratorio in a resolutely non-intimate space.

IN CONVERSATION WITH: Tom Richardson

Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down with Tom Richardson, one of the composers of a new soundtrack created to be played alongside Battleship Potemkin. Written in 2017 for Plymouth’s eclectic The Pit Orchestra, the company will revive this landmark work this December with a special film-with-live-orchestra performance in celebration of the centenary of what is considered one of the greatest films ever created, Battleship Potemkin.