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Linos Piano Trio

St Laurence’s Church, Church Stretton, 1 August

Web: strettonfestival.org.uk

Hot-footing it from Lake District Summer Music, the Linos Piano Trio repeats its all-French programme including a transcription of Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin – part of an ongoing ‘Stolen Music’ project. It’s not the only theft. Prefacing Lili Boulanger’s Deux pièces en trio and Ravel’s Piano Trio is the ensemble’s arrangement of Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre.

St Endellion Festival

St Endelienta’s Church, St Endellion, 2, 4 August

Web: endellionfestivals.org.uk

In his last festival as artistic director, tenor Mark Padmore bids adieu with an edition that includes two concert performances of Britten’s with Padmore himself in the title role.

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