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Reviews by Lucy Armstrong

After growing up in Canada studying music, literature and philosophy in the exuberant festival city of Montreal, Lucy A. Armstrong has returned to the U.K. to explore the adventurous arts scene and integrate herself into the wonderful world of classical music and theatre.
Date and venueTitle
16-Jun-2012
Truro Cathedral
The Three Spires and the Three Bachs: A Magnificat Evening
Celebrating the music of an iconic family that bridged the height of the Baroque period with the Classical era, conductor Christopher Gray and his Three Spires Singers set the evening ablaze with J.S. Bach's Magnificat and two works by the composer's prodigious children: the Sinfonia Concertante in A by J.C. Bach and C.P.E Bach's exuberant Magnificat.
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26-May-2012
Truro Cathedral
Truro Choral Society Illuminates Truro Cathedral with Verdi's Requiem
Image credit: Truro Choral Society and Symphony OrchestraA place of worship was the stage; stained glass windows cast light on a choir that massed over a hundred and sixty members, and the Truro Symphony Orchestra, led by Martin Palmer and heralded by soprano Claire Seaton, mezzo Susanna Spicer, tenor Anthony Mee, and bass Edward Price wrought tragedy and triumph out of a magnificent performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Messa da Requiem at Truro Cathedral.
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20-Apr-2012
Truro School: Chapel
IMS Prussia Cove Livens Up the Chamber Music Crowd in Cornwall
Image credit: Bingxia Lu and Simon ParkinDrawing an end to a season of vigorous study under some of the world's leading maestri, the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove presented their penultimate concert in Truro School Chapel with a steadfast sense of achievement that derived from the fruit of labour combined with an eternal passion for music.
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17-Apr-2012
Hall for Cornwall
The Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera Perform Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky in Cornwall
Image credit: Alexander SitkovetskyThe vibrant tapestry of the orchestra – the most expansively diverse of ensembles – can convey anything from the innermost reaches of the psyche to vast landscapes of endless imaginative scope. Surely the genius of late Romantic Russian society found his voice through this medium, whose glorious Violin Concerto in D major and Symphony No. 5 in E minor were brought to life by the Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera at Hall for Cornwall.
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10-Apr-2012
St John's Hall
International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove: New Talents in Cornwall
Image credit: Alexander Ullman, piano. Photo: Miles EssexBringing with them the exuberance of youthful passion and prodigious energy, the students of the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove in Cornwall transformed a starkly unaccommodating town hall into one which thrilled to the talents of classical music's heirs.
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24-Mar-2012
Truro Cathedral
The Three Spires Singers and Orchestra with David Briggs
Image credit: David BriggsLuring England's David Briggs back to his native soil and under the soaring arches of Truro Cathedral is hardly a monumental feat when tempted by the works of Fauré, Poulenc and Charpentier, as well as a performance of his own Requiem. In a programme as equally stunning in its architectural beauty as the venue which housed it, the Three Spires Singers and Orchestra led the audience in a grand meditation of choral rapture, helmed by conductor Christopher Gray.
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15-Mar-2012
Hall for Cornwall
Julian Lloyd Webber Pays Tribute to Cello Greats in Cornwall
Image credit: Julian Lloyd Webber, © Simon FowlerIt is inevitable that one of the most beloved of orchestral instruments, the cello, will entice a diverse crowd of enthusiastic concertgoers – and that even in the midst of a recession, there prevails an inherent desire to depart from the self now and then for a ritualistic celebration of great music. It is no surprise, then, that Truro's Hall for Cornwall warmly welcomed an evening with cellist Julian Lloyd Webber and pianist Pam Chowhan, performing works by Bach, Bridge, Britten, Fauré, Delius, Rachmaninov, Saint-Saëns, Piazzolla, and William Lloyd Webber.
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