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 The Charles Hazlewood show on BBC Radio 2 "This is impressive stuff, especially if you find some of Radio 2's evening output a tad unchallenging, but also find eclecticism on Radio 3 a bit scary. Here, the musical selections are familiar enough, but they are linked together in surprising and productive new ways..." Read more of Elisabeth Mahoney's review of this show for the Guardian here
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I was immersed into a smokey, riveting set orchestrated by Charles Hazlewood
(BBC Radio 2, Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra,
guest conductor of many leading orchestras in the UK and abroad). Sitting
on random wooden kitchen chairs, these seven gifted musicians transported
the enraptured audience into the worlds of legendary composers Moondog..."
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Make no mistake. This is one of the most moving, beautiful, humane and
courageous shows you will ever see in the West End."
'"People
get energised by this beautiful place," says Charles Hazlewood energetically,
as he paces around a cavernous barn with a grand piano at one end and
the remains of a plough at the other. We're at the conductor's ramshackle
former farm in Somerset, where the chaos of family life runs alongside
Hazlewood's one-man mission to break down the boundaries of music...'