Hints and tips:
...Stephen Houston on keyboards and oboe and Vincent McCusker on lead guitar happily throw in a few bars of Bach or some pastiche Handel....
...One particularly ambitious project draws on Gustav Holst’s famous orchestral suite The Planets, envisaged by Bolton as The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World....
...Britten A Ceremony of Carols, Saint Nicolas Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Holst Singers/Stephen Layton (Hyperion)...
...Operas by Benda, Holst, Lortzing, Paisiello and Peter Maxwell Davies have featured in recent years, and the 2009 festival (until July 28) pays anniversary tributes to Handel with Orlando and Mendelssohn...
...Stephen Fry would always be a welcome addition though. Do you take your BlackBerry/iPhone? I hate to admit that I do. What do you think about on holiday?...
...Davis was in his element, drawing lustrous responses from the BBC Symphony Chorus (chorus-master: Stephen Jackson) and Orchestra....
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